It's all about....ME

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.


We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.


To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Thomas Merton