If what most people take for granted were really true—
if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything
and see everything
and investigate every experience
and then talk about it,
I should have been a very happy person,
a spiritual millionaire,
from the cradle even until now…What a strange thing!
In filling myself, I had emptied myself.
In grasping things, I had lost everything.
In devouring pleasures and joys,
I had found distress and anguish and fear.
Thomas Merton
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