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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Born: Jan 31, 1915
Died: Dec 10, 1968

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Spiritual, Darkness, Stumble, Fall, Constantly, True, Know, Most, Fallen, Even, Enlightened

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frederick Douglass, Helen Keller, Henry David Thoreau, Joyce Meyer, Mark Twain, Og Mandino, Zig Ziglar

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