We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination …

Thomas Merton
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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.312, Image
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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.312, Image

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