"The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity."

-- Thomas Merton

#Self Quotes #Order Quotes #Identity Quotes

“A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.”
“For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.”

Source : 1570 The Schoolmaster, bk.2.
“I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.”
“In America, we have energy literally off our shores and under our feet.”
“All that matters is that you keep going no matter what”
“There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his liturgy. "There's an established rite, Your Grace. Marriage must be entered into with solemnity and consideration. I don't know that I can rush--" "Ten minutes. One thousand guineas." The liturgy snapped closed. "Then again, what do a few extra minutes signify to an eternal God?" He beckoned Amelia with a fluttering, papery hand. "Make haste, child. You're about to be married.”
“I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.”
“I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.”

Source : Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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