O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't. - Thomas Merton

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Some are addicted to cigarettes, some, God forbid, to drugs, and some become addicted to money. They say that the worst addiction is to power. I have never felt that. I have never been addicted to anything

Thomas Merton

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

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It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

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The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

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