We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth …

Thomas Merton
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We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.198, Shambhala Publications
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