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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Thomas Merton
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Thomas Merton
Age: 53 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Thomas Feverel Merton
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A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
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For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
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The goal of fasting is inner unity.
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
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Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
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And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
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Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost
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Today will never come again.
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
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When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.
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We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to like one another.
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To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.
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One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.
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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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A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass
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