To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of the…

Thomas Merton
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.24, Shambhala Publications
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