There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. Eternity is in the present. Eternity is in the palm of the hand. Eternity is a seed of fire whose sudden roots break barriers that keep my heart from being an abyss.
– Thomas Merton, journal entry – 7/4/52
Edge of Atlantic 
This is a very difficult realization to reach, I think, and it can only be understood in the very way you’re trying to understand. Very “meta.”
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