Saturday, April 04, 2026

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Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but also because of the silence in it: without the alternation of sound and silence, there ...

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 “It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of ...

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“First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in...

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds” ― Thomas Merton

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 “Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their pow...

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 “The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause ...

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“Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal...

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“Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.” ― Thomas Merton

“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. ” ― Thomas Merton

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“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself ...

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“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to s...

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

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― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude   

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“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no resul...

“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.” Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in propor...

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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it ...

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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an ...

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own ...

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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.” ― Thoma...

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“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and...