All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing…

Thomas Merton
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All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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