The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error tha…

Thomas Merton
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The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real! ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.387, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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