The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of t…

Thomas Merton
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The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.38, New Directions Publishing
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Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). The Ascent to Truth, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. ✨ In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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