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 MERTONHow can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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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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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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In 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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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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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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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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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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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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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
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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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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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