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‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Thomas Merton

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 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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Alone Big Enough Happiness Ourselves
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
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
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
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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Achievement Greatness Lose Success
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
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Imagination Man Obsession Result Time Value Worth
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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Generosity Impossible Love Philosophy Quite Satisfaction Wisdom Yourself
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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Deep God Ourselves Peace Spiritual
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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Alive Beautiful Ordinary See
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
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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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
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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Desire End Leadership Life Live Man Philosophy Service Spiritual Yourself
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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Deep Peace World Yourself
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
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong

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