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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

~Thomas Merton

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

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Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 31st, 1915

Died: December 10th, 1968

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