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Merton (Still) Matters: How the Trappist Monk and Author Speaks to Millennials

By Daniel P. Horan — 2015

Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton. But having died suddenly in Thailand on Dec. 10, 1968, while overseas to speak at conferences for Catholic monastic communities in Asia, Merton never lived to see a birthday beyond his 53rd.

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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Radical Regeneration: Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction

What is being made crystal clear is that humanity stands at a monumentally fragile threshold with two stark choices placed before it in a situation of complete uncertainty: Those choices are: 1) To continue to worship a vision of power, totally distanced from sacred reality 2) Or to choose the path...

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Andrew Harvey, Carolyn Baker
2020
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Amit Goswami: Quantum Physics & Consciousness, Part 2 of 3

Amit Goswami, Ph.D ON Quantum Physics & Consciousness, Why do we all feel separate.

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Amit Goswami
2007
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Conversation with Lawrence Kushner - Program 4911

Hosts Delle Chatman and Daniel Pawlus in conversation with Rabbi Larry Kushner, who says that everyone has mystical experiences – not necessarily where the roof flies off the building and you hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing the "Hallelujah" chorus, but more like quickie moments where,...

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Lawrence Kushner
2014
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Nelson Mandela at Harvard

Nelson Mandela was given an honorary doctoral degree from Harvard University in a special fall convocation on September 18, 1998. Introduced by former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, Mandela delivered an address in the Tercentenary Theatre of Harvard Yard.

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Nelson Mandela
2014
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Tara Brach: Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life

How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full...

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Tara Brach
2015
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