Thomas Merton
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
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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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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.