... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out …

Thomas Merton
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... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.13, Shambhala Publications
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we … ▶
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... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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