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Thomas Merton Quotes and Quotations
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Perhaps I am stronger than I think. We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me. We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another. There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world. Perhaps I am stronger than I think. |