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.
THOMAS MERTONYou are made in the image of what you desire.
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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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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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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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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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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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Our real journey in life is interior.
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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
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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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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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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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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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The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
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A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
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