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Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
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 in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
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The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
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Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.
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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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O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
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I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
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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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When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
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To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.
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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
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Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
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Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
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We do not exist for ourselves.
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We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
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Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
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