Thomas Merton Quote

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.


A Thomas Merton Reader (ed. Image, 1974)


We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable...

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable...

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable...

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable...