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Zdroj: Porovnaj: MERTON, T.: Žádný člověk není ostrov (No Man is an Island). Krystal OP, Praha 1995, str. 54.
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„V umení sa zároveň nachádzame a strácame.“
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Zdroj: Porovnaj: Reader's Digest Výběr, február 1997, s. 5.
Thomas Merton: Citáty v angličtine
Thomas Merton kniha The Seven Storey Mountain
Zdroj: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Kontext: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.
Varianta: The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Zdroj: The Way of Chuang Tzu
“The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.”
As quoted in Forbes (4 August 1980).
Zdroj: Thoughts in Solitude
Thomas Merton kniha No Man Is an Island
Zdroj: No Man Is an Island
Thomas Merton kniha No Man Is an Island
Zdroj: No Man Is an Island
Thomas Merton kniha No Man Is an Island
Zdroj: No Man Is an Island
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
Zdroj: Seeds of Contemplation
