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Form Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in…
- To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism…
- To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law…
- When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can…
- We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
- If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
- Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
- 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…
- Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
- 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…
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
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