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No Man is an Island
No Man is an Island | Thomas Merton
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This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
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"If the #essence of freedom were merely the act of choice, then the mere fact of making choices would perfect our freedom.” --Thomas Merton. #InQuotes
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Eggs Well done and lovely photo🧡🧡 2y
Talewaggingreads Island sunsets. 😎 2y
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time

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In order to defend ourselves against agitation, we must be detached not only from the immediate results of our work...but from the whole complex of aims that govern our earthly lives. We have to be detached from health and security, from pleasures and possessions, from people and places and conditions and things. We have to be indifferent to life itself, in the Gospel sense, living like the lilies of the field, seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven

jessamyngrace and trusting that all our material needs will be taken care of into the bargain. How many of us can say, with any assurance, that we have even begun to live like this? 7y
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True.

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GoneFishing
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

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We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves.

Suet624 I learned that during my first year of Lyme Disease treatment. 8y
Laura317 Seizing in this today as we watch my 95 year old mother-in-law fight renal failure and heart failure. Seeing the grace and strength in which she handles herself can only come from God. 8y
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Donna_sBookMinute Very insightful quote. Must reread. 8y
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