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  • The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

    Speaker: Thomas Merton
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    Posted: 01 Sep 2009 at 9:57 AM
    Posted By: dirid51
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    Tags: image, love, reflection
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  • You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God’s dealings with us
    that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like
    them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but
    also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern
    that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that
    Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there
    are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the
    delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

    Speaker: Thomas Merton
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    Posted: 26 Nov 2007 at 8:44 AM
    Posted By: dirid51
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    Tags: patience