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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.

Thomas Merton

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
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Country Enemy Myself Peace Prayer War
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
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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Beginning Image Love Ourselves Perfection Reflection
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Experience God Silence
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
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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Belief Humanity Ourselves
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
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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Moon Ourselves Separate Travel
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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Afraid Faith People Religion
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Bad Failure Greatness Man Success
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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Act Action Spiritual Way
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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Discover Name Philosophy Yourself
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Humility Pride Reality
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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Achievement Greatness Lose Success

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