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
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- 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.
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Best Quotes
- Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
- To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
- Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
- The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.