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Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton


Thomas Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding.

Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the US. Merton's letters and diaries, reveal the intensity with which their author focused on social justice issues, including the civil rights movement and proliferation of nuclear arms. He had prohibited their publication for 25 years after his death. Publication raised new interest in Merton's life.
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Si tus fuerzas son diez veces superiores a las del adversario, rodéalo; si son cinco veces superiores, atácalo; si son dos veces superiores, divídelo. Si tus fuerzas son iguales en número, lucha si te es posible. Si tus fuerzas son inferiores, mantente continuamente en guardia, pues el más pequeño fallo te acarrearía las peores consecuencias
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- استولِ قبل عدوك على الممرات الضيقة والنقاط المهمة وحين تصل إليها افترض احتلاله لها. - بادر بقتال العدو حين يعبر النهر.. ولا تجتز أنت وهو على الطرف الآخر. - كلما طالت خطوط تموينك ازداد ضعفك واحتمال التفاف العدو حولك. - لا تفتح على نفسك عدة جبهات في وقت واحد.. تحالف مع أحد الأعداء حتى تنتهي من الآخر! - حين تحاصر العدو اترك له فجوة للهرب.. فالضغط بقسوة يجعله يستأسد في القتال. - الاحتفاظ بجاسوس في الداخل يعادل جيشاً بأكمله!! - وأفضل الجواسيس من يحمل جنسية العدو ولكنه يؤمن بأهدافك!! - وأخيرا.. ضمان النصر النهائي قد يتطلب التضحية بأفضل الجواسيس!!!
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Las armas son instrumentos de mal augurio y la guerra es un asunto peligroso. Es indispensable impedir una derrota desastrosa y, por lo tanto, no vale la pena movilizar un ejército por razones insignificantes: Las armas sólo deben utilizarse cuando no existe otro remedio.
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discuss the art of war.”3 It seems likely, then, that
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a skilful general given free rein by the ruler, brings victory.
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Soldiers lose all fear when they lose all hope.
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took part in the expedition, and also that its success was largely due to the dash and enterprise of Fu Kai, Ho Lu's younger brother, it is not easy to see how yet another general could have played a very prominent
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ومبادئ سون مفيدة جدّاً في عالم التجارة والتعامل الإداري، وفي تفاوضنا اليومي مع الآخرين. منها: • لاتكرر التكتيك الذي فزت به سابقاً، ابتكر غيره أو عدله بطريقة غير متوقعة. • بناء على مدى توافق الظروف، على المرء أن يعدل خططه. • لا تفتح على نفسك عدة جبهات في وقت واحد.. تحالف مع أحد الأعداء حتى تنتهي من الآخر. • الاحتفاظ بجاسوس في الداخل يعادل جيشاً بأكمله! • وأفضل الجواسيس من يحمل جنسية العدو ولكنه يؤمن بأهدافك! • القتال والانتصار في جميع المعارك ليس هو قمة المهارة، التفوق الأعظم هو كسر مقاومة العدو دون أي قتال. • قد تعرف السبيل إلى قهر عدوك، دون أن تكون قادراً بالضرورة على عمل ذلك. • اتخاذك الوضع الدفاعي يشير إلى قوة غير كافية، بينما الهجوم يستلزم توفر القوة الزائدة. • المقاتل الباسل سيكون رهيباً في هجومه، متأنياً عند اتخاذه لقراراته. • قارن بحرص جيش العدو بجيشك، لتقف على نقاط القوة المفرطة، وتلك الناقصة. • إذا كنا - في خضم مشاكلنا - مستعدين لانتهاز أي فرصة قد تتاح لنا، فيمكننا أن نُخرج أنفسنا من مأزقنا. • اغزُ البلاد الخصيبة من أجل إمداد جيشك بالطعام. • عمل القائد هو أن يبقى هادئاً فيضمن السرية، وأن يكون مستقيماً وعادلاً، فيضمن استقرار النظام العام. • الحاكم المستنير يضع خططه مقدماً، والقائد الناجح يرعى مصادره وجنوده (عن طريق الثواب والعقاب والمكافآت). • هذه الوسائل العسكرية تؤدي إلى النصر، فلا تفشيها قبل أوانها.
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كل حرب تقوم على أساس الخداع ولهذا حين تكون قادراً على الهجوم تظاهر بعدم القدرة، وحين تقوم بتحريك القوات تظاهر بأنك لا تقوم بأي فعل
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In praying to God for souls, he realizes it is not so important to know the souls for whom he is praying, as Him to Whom he is praying. But
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If we want to compare a computer algorithm with nature, we must consider that a lot of the algorithms that are dictating international issues, politics, capitalism, culture and ultimately the content of human attention, were basically programmed by young men fresh out of Stanford, Harvard and MIT. So the experience behind these algorithms is basically puberty and then some, whereas the experience behind nature goes all the way back to the big bang.
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There is only one emotion which money has ever extended to idealism - contempt." -
topics: contempt , idealism , money  
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Consumption can never satisfy because the logic of the consumable object demands the creation of new insatiable needs.
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Love is our destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another.
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If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found.
topics: hard-truth  
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Our landlord, Mr. Duggan, ran a nearby saloon. He got in trouble with Father for helping himself to the rhubarb which we were growing in the garden. I remember the grey summer dusk in which this happened. We were at the supper table, when the bended Mr. Duggan was observed, like some whale in the sea of green rhubarb, plucking up the red stalks. Father rose to his feet and hastened out into the garden. I could hear indignant words. We sat at the supper table, silent, not eating, and when Father returned I began to question him, and to endeavour to work out the morality of the situation. And I still remember it as having struck me as a difficult case, with much to be said on both sides. In fact, I had assumed that if the landlord felt like it, he could simply come and harvest all our vegetables, and there was nothing we could do about it. I mention this with the full consciousness that someone will use it against me, and say that the real reason I became a monk in later years was that I had the mentality of a medieval serf when I was barely out of the cradle.
topics: rhubarb , serf  
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Our spiritual attitude, our way of seeking peace and perfection, depends entirely on our concept of God. If we are able to believe he is truly our loving Father, if we can really accept the truth of his infinite and compassionate concern for us, if we believe that he loves us not because we are worthy but because we need his love, then we can advance with confidence. We will not be discouraged by our inevitable weaknesses and failures.
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(Excerpt from Leaving Things Alone) You train your eye and your vision lusts after colour. You train your ear, and you long for delightful sound. You delight in doing good, and your natural kindness is blown out of shape. You delight in righteousness, and you become righteous beyond all reason.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy
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Gerçek anlamda derin düşünme; psikolojik bir hile değil, teolojik bir lütuftur.
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