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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Thomas Merton

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
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Desire End Leadership Life Live Man Philosophy Service Spiritual Yourself
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
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
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Existence God Identity Image Love Myself Name Reason True
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Experience God Silence
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time
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
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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Job Love Ourselves Stop Worth
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 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
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
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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Compassionate Ideas Interdependent Live Oneself
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
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
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Beginning Creation Difference Happiness Joy Live Philosophy Yourself
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Inspirational One Liner Strong Thinking

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