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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.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Love #Valentines Day #Fate
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“"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Jobs #Stopping #Worthy
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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.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Wisdom #Destiny #Want
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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”
-- Thomas Merton
#Wisdom #Emotional #Mind
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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.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Life #God #Spiritual
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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
#Spiritual #Firsts #Life Is
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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.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Moving On #Faith #Courage
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“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing...”
-- Thomas Merton
#Faith #Believe #Inspiration
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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.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Spiritual #Love You #Funny Relationship
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“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Giving
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Art #Self Discovery
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“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Uplifting #Men #Soul
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“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Disappointment #Eye #Heart
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“The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Cutting #Reality #Long
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“You are made in the image of what you desire.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Desire #Made
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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.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Love #Spiritual #Wisdom
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“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Wisdom #Book #Love You
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“Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Order #World #May
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“If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Wisdom #Writing #Men
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“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Strength #Being Strong #Confidence
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“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Inspirational #Wisdom #Fake People
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“The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Real #Thinking #Massage
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“People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Thinking #People #Lazy
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“Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Beautiful #Duty
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“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Life #Wisdom #Men
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“True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Spiritual #Encounters #Christ
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“As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself to me, I will have Peace, and He will be near me and in me, and I will rest in Him.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Long #Shows
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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Love Is
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“To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.”
-- Thomas Merton
#Christian #Religious #Mean
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“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.”
-- Thomas Merton
#God #Spiritual #Truth
