"War is not caused by hunger or by need. It is the powerful and the rich who make war (1962)." #ThomasMerton #PrayForPeace
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#ThomasMerton is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 8 people shared 13 posts with it — around 0 a day. Activity is down 67% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 31 with 2 posts.
#ThomasMerton posts per day (last 30 days)
Posts with #ThomasMerton
76 years ago right now, this amazing autobiography was new in bookstores, outselling every other nonfiction title. To people disillusioned with the world, it sold 600,000 hardcover copies in the first 12 months.
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"There is no poverty as great as that of the prosperous, no wretchedness as dismal as affluence. Wealth is poison (1965)." #ThomasMerton #LiveTheGospel
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"Good Shepherd, you have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know you won't. For you have found me. All I have to do is stay found." #ThomasMerton
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"The country is full of madness and we are going to know this more and more (1963)." #ThomasMerton #PrayForAmerica
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“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”
Thomas Merton
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"The impatience that fumes at others and damns them (especially whole classes, races, and nations) is a sign of weakness that is still unliberated, still not tracked by the Blood of Christ, and still a stranger to the Cross." #ThomasMerton
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"To be opaque and dense with opinion, with passion, with need, with hate, with power, is to not be there, to be absent, to not exist." #ThomasMerton
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"I am glad of my deep moral poverty, which is always before me these days, but which does not obsess or upset me, because it is all lost in His mercy." #ThomasMerton
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"The great obligation of the Christian, especially now, is to prove himself a disciple of Christ by hating no one, that is to say, by condemning no one, rejecting no one (1963)." #ThomasMerton #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther
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💙 Already Worthy
Stop trying to earn what love has already given. You are worthy before you achieve.
Mystic In My Pocket ✨ amazon.com/author/my... #mysticism #spirituality #mindfulness #SelfWorth #ThomasMerton
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"El pavor a ser uno mismo es el gran obstáculo de la #libertad, pues la libertad equivale a ser uno mismo y proceder de acuerdo con ello" -- #ThomasMerton, Diario de un #ermitaño, 6.6.1964.
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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”
~ Thomas Merton
the call to love our neighbor, who is everyone, comes without caveats.
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#love #LoveThyNeighbor #ThomasMerton #JinpaLhaga #JMWart
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Pride is a stubborn insistence of being what we are not and never were intended to be. Pride is a deep, insatiable need for unreality, an exorbitant demand that others believe the lie we have made ourselves believe about ourselves.
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"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business."
- Thomas Merton
#QuoteOfTheDay #ThomasMerton #Worthiness #Love
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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.
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An exchange between Wendell Berry and Tim DeChristopher. I've been in that building Berry mentions.
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#ThomasMerton #quote, forwarding the belief that destructive hatred feels powerful because it is drawn from group anger rather than individual moral choices.
We see much of that today.
From "New Seeds of Contemplation":
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