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The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable
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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It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.
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One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.
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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
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We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to like one another.
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
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To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law of grace and love - but that one must do so. The first obligation of the Christian is to maintain their freedom from all superstitions, all blind taboos and religious formalities, indeed from all empty forms of legalism.
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The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
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The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.
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No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.
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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.
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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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Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
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In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
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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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Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers.
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Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
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Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.
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In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
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Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
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It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.
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