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
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
- 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 least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- 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.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- 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
- The more wit the less courage.
- A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
- I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
- You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
- If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
- The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
- Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.
- One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
- I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.