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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.

Thomas Merton

When 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.
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God Imagination Mindset Nature Reality Silence Tongue Yourself
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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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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Deep God Philosophy See Spiritual Yourself
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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Acceptance Desire Generosity Goodness Greatness Life Live Love Ourselves Self Love
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time
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
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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Belief Humanity Ourselves
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
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him who loves us, who is near to us.
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God Himself Love Prayer
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
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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Change Loyalty Mindset Myself Shadow Sincere Thinking
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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Ambition Discover Myself Philosophy Result See
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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Destiny Fulfill God Necessary Oneself Willing
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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God Man Ourselves Perfection Right Thinking Vice
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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Connection Food Growth Moments Ourselves Pieces Relationship Spiritual World

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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