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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Beginning Love Perfection Willing
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
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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Act Action Spiritual Way
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
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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Alone Destiny Life Love Ourselves True
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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Better God Nature Spiritual Tree Wind
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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Action Deep Grace Growth Heart Journey Necessary Reality Respond
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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Life Live Philosophy Spiritual Study
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Inspirational One Liner Strong 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
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
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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Greedy Hate Injustice Peace People Philosophy Soul Thinking War Yourself
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
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Discover Name Philosophy Yourself
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
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
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Alone Life Live Ourselves True
Our real journey in life is interior.
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Journey Life Ourselves Reality

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