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.

Quote by Thomas Merton

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and...

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and...

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of...

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of...

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that...

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the...

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the...

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything...

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism...

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are...

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are...

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the...

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the...

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a...

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a...

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens...

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves...

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves...

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give...

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism...

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left...

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left...

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his...

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his...