The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to re…

Thomas Merton
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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.224, Image
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