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And always I was to be punished for my sins by my sins themselves, and to realize, at least obscurely, that I was being so punished and burn in the flames of my own hell, and rot in the hell of my own corrupt will until I was forced at last, by my own intense misery, to give up my own will.


source: Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain 155 tags: Despair, Surrender, Will

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