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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

~Thomas Merton

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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

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A daydream is an evasion.

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

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I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 31st, 1915

Died: December 10th, 1968

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