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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

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
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 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
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
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
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
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Live People Reach Success Wall Wrong
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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Afraid Faith People Religion
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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Country Enemy Myself Peace Prayer War
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
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
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
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
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Achievement Hope Ourselves Perfection Walk
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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Greedy Hate Injustice Peace People Philosophy Soul Thinking War Yourself
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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Live Ourselves Revolution Storm Time Transformation
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
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Enough Need Ourselves Silence Voice
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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Best Deep Imitation Ourselves Person Philosophy Stranger Thinking

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