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Noise

21. May, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments

“… Now let us frankly face the fact that our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent…

Judgment

20. May, 2013Beauty, Blog, ReflectionsNo comments

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done….

Life

17. May, 2013Beauty, Blog, ReflectionsNo comments

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it….

Born Again

16. May, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments

“There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from…

Living

15. May, 2013Beauty, Blog, ReflectionsNo comments

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. Leo Tolstoy

Looking for the World

14. May, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments

“We must begin by frankly admitting that the first place in which to go looking for the world is not outside us but in ourselves. We are the world. In…

A Friend

13. May, 2013Beauty, Blog, ReflectionsNo comments

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift…

The Sun

10. May, 2013Beauty, Blog, ReflectionsNo comments

“Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the…

A Transparent World

9. May, 2013Beauty, Blog, ReflectionsNo comments

“We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time… He is everywhere, He is in everything, and we cannot be…