There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light,…

Thomas Merton
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There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. ✨ In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton.
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