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.
THOMAS MERTONOur job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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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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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
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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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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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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Do 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.
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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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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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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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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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If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
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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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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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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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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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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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I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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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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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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