71 ordspråk av Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton föddes den January 31st 1915 och dog den 10 December 1968 - French Monk
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 The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. |
| The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom |
| The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. |
| The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. |
| The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt |
| The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt |
| The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. |
| The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. |
| The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. |
| There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him. |
| To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell |
| 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 |
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