Weaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
THOMAS MERTONWe 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.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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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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Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
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If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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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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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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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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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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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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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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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
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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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Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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