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Love by thomas merton

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Love and Living

Love and Living is a posthumously published collection of Merton's essays and meditations centering on the need for love in learning to live. "Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value, and identity." Edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Brother Patrick Hart.

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FindCenterThe 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.

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FindCenterLove is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.

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FindCenterOur job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

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FindCenterLove seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

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FindCenterTo 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.

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