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In an age of commercialism, gratitude can be a difficult virtue to cultivate. Today, we turn to theologian Thomas Merton for advice on developing gratitude.
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"Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages. Guard the image of man for it is the image of God." -Thomas Merton-
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy... Thomas Merton
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We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of…
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