The Whole Idea of Compassion
2019-12-19
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton Quotes
In Humility Is the Greatest Freedom
2019-12-19
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
We Cannot Be Happy If We Expect
2019-12-19
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Compassion is the Keen Awareness
2019-12-19
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Let Us Come Alive
2019-12-19
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us, and see the beauty in ordinary things.
Art Enables Us to Find Ourselves
2019-12-19
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Love Is Our True Destiny
2019-12-19
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
The Beginning of Love
2019-12-19
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.