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No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
-Thomas Merton
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No Writing On The Solitary, Meditative Dimensions

Thomas Merton
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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