Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968
Birthday: January 31
Death: December 10
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.
source: Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Death, Wisdom, Heart, Marrow, Eyes That See