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The innocence and purity of heart which belong to paradise are
a complete emptiness of self in which all is the work of God,
the free and unpredictable expression of His love,
the work of grace.
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In the purity of original innocence,
all is done in us but without us, in nobis et sine nobis.
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~ Thomas Merton
from Zen and the Birds of Appetite
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