Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
THOMAS MERTONIn a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
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Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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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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For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Weaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
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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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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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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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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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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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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.
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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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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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The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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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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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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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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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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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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