Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
roots modern-life demand
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
wisdom passion light
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
wisdom self order
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost
courage listening quiet
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
gratitude grateful differences
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
responsibility self-improvement analysis
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.
thanksgiving gratitude grateful
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
being-single heart being-alone
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
wisdom heart carpe-diem
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
responsibility destiny men
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?
life work-out analysis
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For until we have begun to live our prudence has no material to work on. And until we have begun to fail we have no way of working out our success.
heart meditation doubt
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding.
love spring price-tag
Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.
christian discovery contemplative-life
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.