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... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
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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You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.
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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.
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Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
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People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
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I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
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Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
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The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is just glass.
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We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
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We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.
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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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May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
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The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.
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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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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?
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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
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The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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