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[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. - T
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. – Thomas Merton

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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. – Thomas Merton

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Courage
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

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Life
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. – Thomas Merton

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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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A fast is better than a bad meal. – Irish Proverb

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Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. – German Proverb

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