Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 5
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 2
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 1
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 1
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 1
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 1
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. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 1
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 1
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them . Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous... Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. Thomas Merton American More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0