To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of the…

Thomas Merton
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.24, Shambhala Publications
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