Sayings and quotes of thomas merton

1. "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

2. "The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."

3. "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

4. "Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith."

5. "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."

6. "The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds."

7. "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

8. "The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image."

9. "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."

10. "Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy."

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