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Natural Quotes by Thomas Merton
- All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and…
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- 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 artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
- The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
- The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the…
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