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 4
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
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 1
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
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
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
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 American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
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. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Thomas Merton American Author 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 Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. Thomas Merton American Author More Thomas Merton Quotes 0