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If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is just glass.

Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton
Age: 53 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Catholic Priest
Essayist
Journalist
Peace Activist
Poet
Theologian
Trappist Cistercian Monk
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Thomas Feverel Merton
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To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
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Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
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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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Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
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How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
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We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.
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This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first.
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If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
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Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.
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