Thomas Merton Quotes About Self Love

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  • Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

    Thomas Merton (1972). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.180, New Directions Publishing
  • To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.

    Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications
  • To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

    Love   Life  
    Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.60, New Directions Publishing
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