Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
THOMAS MERTONWhen your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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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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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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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.
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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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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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What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
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Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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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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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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