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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.

Thomas Merton

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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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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I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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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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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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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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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
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‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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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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