If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, sp…

Thomas Merton
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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.30, Macmillan
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Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. ✨ Thomas Merton (1966). Raids on the Unspeakable, p.6, New Directions Publishing
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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.30, Macmillan

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