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Quote by Thomas Merton
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imaginat

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – 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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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – 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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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. – Bill Hicks

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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. – Lord Chesterfield

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The Grateful Dead, theyre my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world. – Bill Walton

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