You are made in the image of what you desire.
THOMAS MERTONA life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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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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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
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A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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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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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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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.
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If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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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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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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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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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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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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Our real journey in life is interior.
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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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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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I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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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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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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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.
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Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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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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