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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Thomas Merton

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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Act Action Spiritual Way
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
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Existence God Identity Image Love Myself Name Reason True
Our real journey in life is interior.
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Journey Life Ourselves Reality
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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Alone Destiny Life Love Ourselves True
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
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Give Up Himself Material Ourselves Surrender
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
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Achievement Hope Ourselves Perfection Walk
What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
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Acceptance Desire Generosity Goodness Greatness Life Live Love Ourselves Self Love
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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Capacity Fear Heart Love Ourselves Power
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
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Emotional Greatness Mental Mindset Need Ourselves Time
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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Business Job Kindness Love Ourselves Stop Worth
‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Job Love Ourselves Stop Worth
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
Weaknesses 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.
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Himself Important Live Need Play Role Weakness
You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Build Desire Image Yourself
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
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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Live Ourselves Revolution Storm Time Transformation

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