Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ✨ Thomas Merton …

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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.119, Shambhala Publications
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ✨ Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). Gandhi on Non-Violence, p.106, New Directions Publishing
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I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings, p.8, Harper Collins
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.15, New Directions Publishing
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.119, Shambhala Publications

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