To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage … - Thomas Merton

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One great lesson from history we need to keep on re-learning. It is that sometimes your adversaries tell you exactly what they're going to do. How many times did [Osama] bin Laden say prior to 9<br>11 that he was coming after the U. S. ? ISIS made clear that when they established their caliphate in Iraq and Syria, they were coming after the United States too.

Thomas Merton

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

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