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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Thomas Merton: The Dulled Sensibilities Of Wealth


Trappist Monk, Father Thomas Merton

"It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself! "

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"A full belly does not believe in hunger."
Italian proverb

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercise in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.    
G. K. Chesterton  

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