Our vocation is not simply to be but to work together with God in the creation of our own life our own identity our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.
Thomas Merton
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To allow oneself to be carried away
By a multitude of conflicting concerns
To surrender to too many demands
...To commit oneself to too many projects
To want to help everyone with everything
Is to succumb to violence.
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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
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