In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
THOMAS MERTONDo 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.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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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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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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