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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?

Thomas Merton

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
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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Compassionate Interdependent Philosophy
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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Eat Hairs Identity Live Myself
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Death Disturb Philosophy Violence
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
You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Build Desire Image Yourself
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
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.
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Art Country Hands Learning Meditation Prayer Ride Work Writing Yourself
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.
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Imagination Man Obsession Result Time Value Worth
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
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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Gratitude Respond Wake Up Wonder
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
What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
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Acceptance Desire Generosity Goodness Greatness Life Live Love Ourselves Self Love
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
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

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