Tag: Thomas Merton
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
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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.
Thomas Merton
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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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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.
Thomas Merton
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Thomas Merton
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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
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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.
Thomas Merton
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Thomas Merton
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
Thomas Merton