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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Thomas Merton
Life, God, Spiritual
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

Thomas Merton
God, Spiritual, Truth
Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Thomas Merton
God, Kindness, Compassion
Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.22, Sounds True

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

Thomas Merton
God, Hope, Religious
Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.434, Macmillan

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