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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.

Thomas Merton

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
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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Alone Big Enough Happiness Ourselves
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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God Imagination Mindset Nature Reality Silence Tongue Yourself
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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Anxiety Force Ourselves Time Willing
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
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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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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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Build Desire Image Yourself
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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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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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
‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Job Love Ourselves Stop Worth
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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Conflict Goodness Myself Religion
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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Act Action Spiritual Way
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
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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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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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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