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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton

Better just to smell a flower in the garden...than to have an unauthentic experience of a much higher value. Better to honestly enjoy the sunshine or some light reading than to claim to be in contact with something that one is not in contact with at all.

- Thomas Merton
Quoted in Essential Monastic Wisdom, by Hugh Feiss

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amen! i love merton! i wonder if benny hinn could get merton to fall out?!

Posted by: nad2 | August 15, 2007 12:44 PM

amen.

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Posted by: Payshun | August 18, 2007 9:30 PM

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