I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell wh…

Thomas Merton
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I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both. ✨ Thomas Merton (2015). Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7, p.10, Liturgical Press
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