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Firsts Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in…
- Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only…
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
- The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
- It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted…
- There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests…
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a…
- The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law…
- Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
- Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that…
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first…
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
- Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation…
- First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and…
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