Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Quote by Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Thomas Merton Quotes
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- 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.
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- 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.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Best Quotes
- If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
- Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
- The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
- We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
- Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.
- Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.