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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.

Thomas Merton

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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Confusion Discipline Fight Love Necessary Peace Philosophy Place Wisdom World
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Beginning Love Perfection Willing
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Inspirational One Liner Strong Thinking
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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Live People Reach Success Wall Wrong
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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Alone Big Enough Happiness Ourselves
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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Art Artist Harmony Kind Moral Mystery Truth
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.
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Himself Important Live Need Play Role Weakness
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
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Challenge Courage Faith Hope Moments Need Recognition Yourself
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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Eat Hairs Identity Live Myself
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Experience God Silence
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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Live Ourselves Revolution Storm Time Transformation
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
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Achievement Hope Ourselves Perfection Walk
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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Conflict Goodness Myself Religion
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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Achievement Greatness Lose Success

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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