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Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.
— Thomas Merton Zen and the Birds of Appetite
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
— Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
— Thomas Merton No Man Is an Island
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
— Thomas Merton
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
— Thomas Merton
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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.
— Thomas Merton
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