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Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
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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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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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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The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68
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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 do not exist for ourselves.
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To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.
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Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
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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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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
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From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.
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The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
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Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
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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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To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.
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The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.
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Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love every moment of existence is a grace.
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Whose silence are you?
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As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.
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