Evasion Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “A daydream is an evasion.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evasion
you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of… — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
“I find that daydreams are oftentimes similar in this respect to real dreams, the kind we experience in an unconscious state. Our mind puts… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
