I do not have to react

/ Bill Schulz

I do not have to react. It is useless. There are much better things to do. And to react is to become implicated – to become a prisoner of the same nonsense that I am compelled to condemn. Do not be compelled.

– Thomas Merton, journal entry, 05.18.59

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