The whole problem
of our time is the problem of love: how are we going to recover the ability to
love ourselves and to love one another? The reason why we hate one another and
fear one another is that we secretly or openly hate and fear our own selves.
And we hate ourselves because the depths of our being are a chaos of
frustration and spiritual misery. Lonely and helpless, we cannot be at peace
with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace
with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
–Thomas Merton
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