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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me. – Thomas Merton

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