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More Quotes by Thomas Merton
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.
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.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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.
