"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
-Thomas Merton
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"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.“
-Thomas Merton
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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
-Thomas Merton
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"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
-Thomas Merton
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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."
-Thomas Merton
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
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"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
-Thomas Merton
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