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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
- 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.
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Best Quotes
- The past is a story you can't change, but the future is a limitless destiny you can venture. Make your own history and your story shall live to be told.
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
- In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
- Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
- If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.