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" We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. "
Thomas Merton
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" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "
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" Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. "
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" October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. "
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" Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. "
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" The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. "
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" The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. "
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" I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery. "
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" Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. "
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" Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. "
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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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" Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. "
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" Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. "
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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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" We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. "
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" Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. "
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" To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. "
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Light
" In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. "
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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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" A daydream is an evasion. "
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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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Men
Result
" 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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Compassion
" Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. "
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" The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. "
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" We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. "
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" Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. "
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" The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. "
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Least
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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. "
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" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "
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