God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word …

Thomas Merton
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God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.37, New Directions Publishing
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