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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Thomas Merton

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
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
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
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Alone Destiny Life Love Ourselves True
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
From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
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Connection Food Growth Moments Ourselves Pieces Relationship Spiritual World
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Humility Pride Reality
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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Gratitude Respond Wake Up Wonder
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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God Himself Journey Right
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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Belief Humanity Ourselves
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Bad Failure Greatness Man Success
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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Art Country Hands Learning Meditation Prayer Ride Work Writing Yourself
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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Business Job Kindness Love Ourselves Stop Worth
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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God Himself Ideas Ourselves
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
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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Ambition Discover Myself Philosophy Result See

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