No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anyt…

Thomas Merton
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No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. ✨ Thomas Merton (2015). Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7, p.10, Liturgical Press
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