Thomas Merton Self Quotations
Thomas Merton Quotes about:
Self Quotes from:
- All Self Quotes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Ramana Maharshi
- Eric Hoffer
- Deepak Chopra
- Wayne Dyer
- Albert Bandura
- Nathaniel Branden
- Dalai Lama
- Brian Tracy
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mason Cooley
- Ayn Rand
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Bruce Lee
- Swami Vivekananda
- Eckhart Tolle
- Marianne Williamson
- C S Lewis
- Carl Jung
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Thinking Quotes
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.
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Mean Quotes
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
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Christian Quotes
Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.
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Luxury Quotes
In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.
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