Aug 14, 2007
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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