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.
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.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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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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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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I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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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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When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.
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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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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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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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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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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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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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