If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
THOMAS MERTONThe whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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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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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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A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
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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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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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