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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Thomas Merton

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 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
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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Best Deep Imitation Ourselves Person Philosophy Stranger Thinking
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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God Himself Ideas Ourselves
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
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Alone Life Live Ourselves True
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
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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Conflict Goodness Myself Religion
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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Achievement Greatness Lose Success
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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Embrace Goodness Illusion Ourselves Person Recognition Shadow
Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.
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Anxiety Force Ourselves Time Willing
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
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
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Humility Pride Reality
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
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Inspirational One Liner Strong Thinking
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

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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