I think it must be tragic if one is very old before they are able to say this. Even worse to die fighting.<\/p>\n
There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all. There must be a time of day when the man who has to speak falls very silent. And his mind forms no more propositions, and he asks himself: Did they have a meaning? there must be a time when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he had ever prayed; when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and he learns a different wisdom: distinguishing the sun from the moon, the stars from the darkness, the sea from the dry land, and the night sky from the shoulder of a hill.<\/p>\n
-Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island, Ch.16 Sec.11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think it must be tragic if one is very old before they are able to say this. Even worse to die fighting. There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all. There must be a time of … <\/p>\n
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