In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
THOMAS MERTONThe 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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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
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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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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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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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Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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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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