Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective real…

Thomas Merton
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Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.32, Macmillan
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