Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
THOMAS MERTONWe are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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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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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
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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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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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Our real journey in life is interior.
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For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.
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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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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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Weaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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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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