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.

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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.  

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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