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Sense Quotes by Thomas Merton
- I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some…
- Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
- The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
- A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
- The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
- Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
- I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet…
- Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
- In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good…
- We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already…
- 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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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden