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

Thomas Merton

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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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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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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We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
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From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
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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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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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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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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him who loves us, who is near to us.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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