Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your …

Thomas Merton
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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