Thomas Merton
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees because God is not in words, and not in systems, and not in liturgical movements, and not in contemplation with a big C, or in asceticism or in anything like that, not even in the apostolate. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters, p.35, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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