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Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander QUOTES

21 " corazón "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

22 " Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

23 " Businesses are, in reality, quasi-religious sects. When you go to work in one you embrace a new faith. And if they are really big businesses, you progress from faith to a kind of mystique. Belief in the product, preaching the product, in the end the product becomes the focus of a transcendental experience. Through “the product” one communes with the vast forces of life, nature, and history that are expressed in business. Why not face it? Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

24 " genuine strength arises only in a condition of vulnerability. The flagrant display and self-serving use of power are an admission of deep incapacity. "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

25 " I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul. "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

26 " patológica. Echando la culpa al negro es como el blanco trata de mantenerse sin dispersión. El negro está en la triste situación de ser usado para todo, hasta para la propia inseguridad psicológica del blanco. Por desgracia, una simple irrupción de violencia no hará más que dar al blanco la justificación que desea. Le convencerá de que es de verdad, "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

27 " To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender oneself to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence. It destroys one's own capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes the work fruitful. "

― Thomas Merton , Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander