The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a r…

Thomas Merton
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The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door. ✨ Nicki Verploegen Vandergrift, Thomas Merton (1995). Meditations with Merton, Triumph Books
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