Thomas Merton Quotes

The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The Complacency Of The Man Who Has No Self-esteem Because He Has Not Even A Superficial Self Which He Can Esteem. He Is Not A Person, Not An Individual, Only An Atom. This Atomized Existence Is Sometimes Praised As Humility Or As Self-sacrifice, Some-times It Is Called Obedience, Sometimes It Is Devotion To The Dialectic Of Class War. It Produces A Kind Of Peace Which Is Not Peace, But Only The Escape From An Immediately Urgent Sense Of Conflict. It Is The Peace Not Of Love But Of Anesthesia. It Is The Peace Not Of Self-realization And Self-dedication, But Of Flight Into Irresponsibility.

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

Thomas Merton Quotes: The Complacency Of The Individual Who Admires His Own Excellence Is Bad Enough, But It Is More Respectable Than The

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