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Part Quotes by Thomas Merton
- A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
- Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own…
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living…
- To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a…
- Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and…
- It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that…
- Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.
- I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life…
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one…
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
- The world is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
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