Thomas Merton Quotes
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.

-Thomas Merton
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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. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection . . . Read more

-Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

-Thomas Merton
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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire t . . . Read more

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

-Thomas Merton
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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

-Thomas Merton
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