Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
THOMAS MERTONArt enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.
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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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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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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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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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No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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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 artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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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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Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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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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