God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking Yo…

Thomas Merton
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God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! ✨ Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life, Harper San Francisco
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