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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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Beginning Image Love Ourselves Perfection Reflection
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity. I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
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Conflict Goodness Myself Religion
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time
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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Destiny Fulfill God Necessary Oneself Willing
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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Challenge Courage Faith Hope Moments Need Recognition Yourself
Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.
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Anxiety Force Ourselves Time Willing
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Live Ourselves Purpose
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
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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Capacity Fear Heart Love Ourselves Power
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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Enough Need Ourselves Silence Voice
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
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Deep Peace World Yourself
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
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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God Himself Ideas Ourselves
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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Gratitude Respond Wake Up Wonder
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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Ambition Discover Myself Philosophy Result See

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