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First of all, although men have a common destiny, each
individual also has to work out his own personal salvation
for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another
to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis,
the individual person is responsible for living his own life
and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his
responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out
the meaning of his own existence. You cannot tell me who
I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know
your own identity, who is going to identify you?”
Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants
something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands
of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual
vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
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