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Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.

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Thomas Merton “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. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” - Thomas MertonIn topics: love | resolution | find | will | beginning | reflection | twist | image | potential | likeness | Empress Quotes | Nine of Clubs Quotes |
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