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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

Thomas Merton

‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Job Love Ourselves Stop Worth
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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Greedy Hate Injustice Peace People Philosophy Soul Thinking War Yourself
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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Alone Destiny Life Love Ourselves True
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
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
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Beginning Love Perfection Willing
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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Deep Peace World Yourself
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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Emotional Greatness Mental Mindset Need Ourselves Time
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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Better God Nature Spiritual Tree Wind
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
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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Deep God Philosophy See Spiritual Yourself
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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Eyes God Goodness Happiness Heart Joy Peace
Our real journey in life is interior.
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Journey Life Ourselves Reality
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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Capacity Fear Heart Love Ourselves Power
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time

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