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Toward Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. Zen suggests 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…
- Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does…
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