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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.

Thomas Merton

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
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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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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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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 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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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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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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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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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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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
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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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Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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