Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
wind tree pine-trees
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
men thinking police
May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
best-love love-one-another bounds
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
attitude real fundamentals
The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.
wisdom destiny want
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
eternity contemplation this-life
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
philosophy philosophical love-is
The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.
spiritual gratitude realization
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.
despair may hopeless
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
contemplative-life law down-and
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.
spiritual humble humility
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
cost care shapes
If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.
inspirational happiness order
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.