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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Thomas Merton
Light, Events, Hell
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

Thomas Merton
Self, Worship, Hell
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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