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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.

Thomas Merton

From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
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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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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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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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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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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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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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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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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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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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