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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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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Discover Name Philosophy Yourself
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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Beginning Image Love Ourselves Perfection Reflection
You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Build Desire Image Yourself
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
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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Embrace Goodness Illusion Ourselves Person Recognition Shadow
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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Belief Humanity Ourselves
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Humility Pride 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
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
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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Alive Beautiful Ordinary See
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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Achievement Hope Ourselves Perfection Walk
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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Alone Life Live Ourselves True
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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Better God Nature Spiritual Tree Wind
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
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
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Beginning Creation Difference Happiness Joy Live Philosophy Yourself

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