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Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings

Book by Thomas Merton · 6 quotes · Wisdom, World, Aliens

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Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings Quotes

“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.”

“They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.”