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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Thomas Merton
Happiness, Ambition, Mindfulness
Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Thomas Merton
Ambition, Ambitious, Ends

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Ambition, Way
Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am a mistake.

Thomas Merton
Mistake, Ambition, Together

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

Thomas Merton
Ambition, August, Blood
Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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