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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.

Thomas Merton

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
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Challenge Courage Faith Hope Moments Need Recognition Yourself
May God prevent us from becoming “right-thinking men”-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
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God Man Ourselves Perfection Right Thinking Vice
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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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
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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Beginning Division Freedom Himself Man Uncomfortable
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
Our real journey in life is interior.
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Journey Life Ourselves Reality
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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Beginning Division Freedom Himself Man Uncomfortable
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
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
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Compassionate Ideas Interdependent Live Oneself
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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Eyes God Goodness Happiness Heart Joy Peace
Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.
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Anxiety Force Ourselves Time Willing
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
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
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
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Deep God Ourselves Peace Spiritual
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Beginning Love Perfection Willing
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose

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