Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
THOMAS MERTONCompassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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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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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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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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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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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.
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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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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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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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