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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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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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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton

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The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace. – Paramahansa Yogananda

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Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. – James Allen

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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. – Eknath Easwaran

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. – Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975

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