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?
THOMAS MERTONNo one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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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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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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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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A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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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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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.
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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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