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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."

Thomas Merton

The morning after Fat Tuesday.
Ashes have been placed on the foreheads of the faithful,
many of whom are harboring aches of astounding proportions.

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Mobile, Alabama