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Quote by Thomas Merton
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves al

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – 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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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

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