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.
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We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it. ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.Thomas Merton
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton
We do not exist for ourselves.
Thomas Merton
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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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.
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The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacythe strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men. A weird life it is to be living always in somebody elses imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could become real.
Thomas Merton
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