Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not…

Thomas Merton
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Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.128, Image
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