One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is …

Thomas Merton
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One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men. ✨ Thomas Merton (2003). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.259, Shambhala Publications
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One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men. ✨ Thomas Merton (2003). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.259, Shambhala Publications

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