The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put …

Thomas Merton
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The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered. ✨ Thomas Merton (1974). A Thomas Merton Reader, Image
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