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

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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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – 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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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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I think if youre a competent actor with a good imagination, and if its on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. – Miguel Ferrer

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Our imagination just needs space. Its all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. – Glen Hansard

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that theres not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. – Eddie Rickenbacker

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