Tag: Thomas Merton
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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.
Thomas Merton
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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.
Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
Thomas Merton
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Thomas Merton
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I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
Thomas Merton
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Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton
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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.
Thomas Merton
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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Thomas Merton
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton