Our real journey in life is interior.
THOMAS MERTONThe 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.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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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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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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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.
THOMAS MERTON