If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is …

Thomas Merton
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If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.231, Shambhala Publications
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