Thomas Merton Quotes

Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As "punishment." Even If A Man Starts Out With Good Intentions, If He Fails We Tend To Think He Was Somehow "at Fault." If He Was Not Guilty, He Was At Least "wrong." And "being Wrong" Is Something We Have Not Yet Learned To Face With Equanimity And Understanding. We Either Condemn It With God-like Disdain Or Forgive It With God-like Condescension. We Do Not Manage To Accept It With Human Compassion, Humility And Identification. Thus We Never See The One Truth That Would Help Us Begin To Solve Our Ethical And Political Problems: That We Are All More Or Less Wrong, That We Are All At Fault, All Limited And Obstructed By Our Mixed Motives, Our Self-deception, Our Greed, Our Self-righteousness And Our Tendency To Aggressivity And Hypocrisy.

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

Thomas Merton Quotes: Perhaps We Still Have A Basically Superstitious Tendency To Associate Failure With Dishonesty And Guilt - Failure Being Interpreted As

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