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Consciousness Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.
- If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."
- Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own…
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- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
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- Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
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- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno
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