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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

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 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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Beginning Division Freedom Himself Man Uncomfortable
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Inspirational One Liner Strong Thinking
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
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Enough Need Ourselves Silence Voice
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
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Believe Faith God Man Material Negative Quick
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
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
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.
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Give Up Himself Material Ourselves Surrender
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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Deep God Ourselves Peace Spiritual
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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Business Job Kindness Love Ourselves Stop Worth
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
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 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
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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Deep God Philosophy See Spiritual Yourself
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
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

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