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Thomas Merton Quotes
«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.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Love,
Reflection
| Keywords:
be, beginning, find, fit, fitter, image, Imaged, Image An, Image The, imaging, is, let, let in, let up, love, my image, not, of her own, only, on her own, otherwise, our own, own, perfectly, reflection, The, Them, themselves, The Beginning, The Twist, this image, those, twist, twisting, twists
«Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.»
«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that 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»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
avoid, Begin, hurt, insignificant, in proportion to, late, proportion, proportioned, smaller, suffer, suffering, Too late, torture, tortures, torturing, Truth Hurts
«We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
all the time
«We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.»
«We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Choice
| Keywords:
capacities, choices, deepest, enable, fulfill, selves
«The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
God,
Self-knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
discovery, Discovery of, error, finding, first step, The Discovery