Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Thomas Merton on Love, Peace, and Being What We Are


Love is our true destiny. 
We do not find the meaning of life
by ourselves alone - we find it with one another.
*** 
Peace demands the most heroic labor
and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater
heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth
and a much more perfect purity of conscience.  
***  
We are already one. 
But we imagine that we are not. 
And what we have to recover is our original unity. 
What we have to be is what we are.  

- Thomas Merton

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