Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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creativityself-discoverySource: "No Man Is an Island"
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Source: "No Man Is an Island"
True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, and, therefore, the potential happiness of such love is with out limit.
Source: "No Man Is an Island"
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Source: No Man Is an Island, Thomas Merton, 1955
One of the best-documented Merton passages. The standard citation in scholarly and popular references alike is No Man Is an Island (Harcourt, Brace, 1955), from the opening material on love, and the quoted text matches Merton's published wording. I am confident in book and year from memory of the standard reference; I have not verified a page number and am not supplying one.