“Despair is the absolute extreme of self love. It is reached when someone deliberatly turns his or her back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing themselves  to be lost.”

– Thomas Merton,  New Seeds Of Contemplation.

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Zip, dozing in the sun, staying close to me and the flowers.

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