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Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Thomas Merton

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
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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Generosity Impossible Love Philosophy Quite Satisfaction Wisdom Yourself
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Bad Failure Greatness Man Success
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
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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Himself Important Live Need Play Role Weakness
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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Country Enemy Myself Peace Prayer War
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
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
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
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
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
Our real journey in life is interior.
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Journey Life Ourselves Reality
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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Experience God Silence
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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God Himself Journey Right
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

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