To Consider Persons And Events And Situations Only In The Light Of Their Effect On Me Is To Live On The Doorstep Of Hell. Selfishness Is Doomed To Frustration Centered As It Is Upon A Lie. To Live Exclusively For Myself, I Must Make All Things Bend Themselves To My Will As If I Were A God.

-Thomas Merton

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To Consider Persons And Events And Situations

Thomas Merton

To Consider Persons And Events And Situations Only In The Light Of Their Effect On Me Is To Live On The Doorstep Of Hell. Selfishness Is Doomed To Frustration Centered As It Is Upon A Lie. To Live Exclusively For Myself, I Must Make All Things Bend Themselves To My Will As If I Were A God.

Topic

Spiritual

Lying

Frustration

We Have What We Seek, It Is There All The Time, And If We Give It Time, It Will Make Itself Known To Us.

Giving

Ifs

Known