Quote by Thomas Merton
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us. - Thoma

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us. – Thomas Merton

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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. – Thomas Merton

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do. – Peace Pilgrim

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Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra

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[I]t can feel as if the entire body has dropped away or has become transparent, as if its substance were in some way erased. It can feel as if there is nothing but breath flowing freely across all the boundaries of the body. – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind

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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food were eating. – Gabrielle Reece

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When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. – Rudyard Kipling

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