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Letter "T" » Thomas Merton Quotes
«To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell»
«We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Peace
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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«Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.»
«Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
balance, harmony, intensities, intensity, rhythm, rhythm and
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