Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
THOMAS MERTONFinally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.
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Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
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Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
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If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
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It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.
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