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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
- It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
- I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.
- It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
- I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
- Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
- I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.
- Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.