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There is no where in you a paradise that is no place and there
You do not enter except without a story.
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To enter there is to become unnameable.
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Whoever is nowhere is nobody, and therefore cannot exist
except unborn:
No disguise will avail him anything
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Such a one is neither lost nor found.
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But he who has an address is lost.
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Who would dare to go nameless in so secure a universe?
Yet, to tell the truth, only the nameless are at home in it.
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They bear with them in the center of nowhere the unborn
flower of nothing:
This is the paradise tree. It must remain unseen until words
end and arguments are silent.
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~ Thomas Merton
(excerpt from The Fall)
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