The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
THOMAS MERTONWeaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
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The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
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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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We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
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How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
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