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Below are Thomas Merton’s Quotes ~

1. Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
2. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
3. The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
4. The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me.
5. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
6. 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.
7. We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
8. 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.
9. When ambition ends, happiness begins.
10. Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

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