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Thomas Merton Quotes: Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
         

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.


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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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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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‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.



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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.



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In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.



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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.



Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.



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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.



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It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.





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