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Thomas Merton


American
January 31, 1915
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A daydream is an evasion.


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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.


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Tags: Little Too Human
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Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.


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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.


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Tags: Over Honest Rich
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.


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Tags: History You Want
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
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Tags: Time Will Make
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.


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Tags: Good Peace Your
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton
Tags: People Me Make
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
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Tags: You Without Here
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
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Tags: Only Most Us