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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.

Thomas Merton

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
THOMAS MERTON

Eat Hairs Identity Live Myself
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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Eyes God Goodness Happiness Heart Joy Peace
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
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Experience God Silence
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
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Compassionate Ideas Interdependent Live Oneself
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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Achievement Greatness Lose Success
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?
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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
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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Avoid Beginning End Hurt Philosophy Suffering Try Yourself
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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Life Live Philosophy Spiritual Study
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
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
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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God Himself Love Prayer
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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Capacity Fear Heart Love Ourselves Power
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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Action Deep Grace Growth Heart Journey Necessary Reality Respond
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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God Man Ourselves Perfection Right Thinking Vice
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

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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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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