The Seven Storey Mountain

...The months have gone by, and You have not lessened any of those desires, but you have given me peace, and I am beginning to see what it is all about. I am beginning to understand.
Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done.
~Merton, Thomas, The Seven Storey Mountain