
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his or her work for peace.”
Thomas Merton
more infosource: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 81.
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category: activist, balance, demand, peace, school of life, time, violence
medium: nonfiction


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