The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of men…

Thomas Merton
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The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.72, Image
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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ✨ Thomas Merton (1997). Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage, HarperOne
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.155, Image
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. ✨ Thomas Merton ( … ▶
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith. ✨ Thomas Merton (1975). The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, p.306, New Directions Publishing

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.72, Image

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