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Seeing Ourselves23. May, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and ‘one body,’ will we begin to understand… |
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Noise21. 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… |
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Born Again16. 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… |
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Looking for the World14. 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… |
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Making Peace7. May, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being… |
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Merton2. May, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed for… |
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Images30. April, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a… |
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Insincerity30. April, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“I no longer want to have anything to do with love that forgets to be grateful. Otherwise I will only go on lying to You: and I want to be… |
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Message of Hope25. April, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“The message of hope the contemplative offers you, then, brother, is not that you need to find your way through the jungle of language and problems that today surround God:… |
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Humility23. April, 2013Blog, Reflections, Thomas MertonNo comments“Teach me to bear a humility which shows me, without ceasing, that I am a liar and a fraud and that, even though this is so, I have an obligation… |
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