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Certainly Quotes by Thomas Merton
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything…
- I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life…
- Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
- Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
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