“Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real.”
— Thomas Merton
“Perhaps I am stronger than I think.”
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
“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 challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
“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 is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
“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 image.”
“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 surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”
“A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.”
“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”
“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
“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.”
“A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.”
“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.”
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”
“In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.”
“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 powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.”
“When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
“The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.”
“Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.”
“The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.”
“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.”
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
“There is in all visible things – a hidden wholeness.”
“Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.”
“The meaning of life is found in openness to being and “being present” in full awareness.”
“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
“Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.”
“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
“Humility is the surest sign of strength.”
“We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.”
“Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.”
“For me to be a saint means to be myself.”
“In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.”
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
“There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.”
“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.”
“My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking.”
“If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.”
“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.”
“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.”
“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.”
“We do not exist for ourselves.”
“A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all.”
“One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.”
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