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We 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.

Thomas Merton

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
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We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
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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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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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 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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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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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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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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We 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.

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