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.
THOMAS MERTONLet us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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May God prevent us from becoming “right-thinking men”-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
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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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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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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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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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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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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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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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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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From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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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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