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More Quotes by Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
