American - Author | January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
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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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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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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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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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A daydream is an evasion.
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
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The 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.
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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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