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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