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Seeds of Contemplatiion
Thomas Merton

1 "God is the Life of all of us and we are all One in Him."

2 "When you and I become what we are really meant to be, we will discover not only that we love one another perfectly but that we are the same Mystical Person."

3 "To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence: for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name."

4 "God is everywhere. His truth and His love pervade all things as the light and the heat of the sun pervade our atmosphere."

5 "God's Spirit will be our One Life, the Life of all of us and the Life of God. And we shall love one another and God with the same Love with which He loves us and Himself."

6 "God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body."

7 "We who dwell together invisibly in the bond of the One Spirit of God affect one another more than we can ever realize."

8 "A tree gives glory to God first of all by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be, it is imitating an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God."

9 "The only One Who can teach me to find God is God Himself Alone."

10 "Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art."

11 "God's love is like a river springing up in the depth of the Divine Substance and flowing endlessly through His creation, filling all things with life and goodness and strength."

12 "Instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war."

13 "There is only one thing that can satisfy love and reward it: and that is love alone."

14 "When we all reach that perfection of love which is the contemplation of God in His glory, our inalienable personalities, while remaining eternally distinct, will nevertheless combine into one Person so that each one of us will find himself in all the others: and God will be the life and reality of all."

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