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Certain Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities…
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a…
- Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more…
- The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
- In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good…
- To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher…
- The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are…
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- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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