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Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

-Thomas Merton

alone

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

-Thomas Merton

art

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

-Thomas Merton

courage

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

death

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

-Thomas Merton

future

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

god

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

god

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

god

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

-Thomas Merton

god

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

-Thomas Merton

god

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

-Thomas Merton

good

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

-Thomas Merton

good

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

-Thomas Merton

happiness

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

-Thomas Merton

happiness

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

-Thomas Merton

history

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

-Thomas Merton

hope

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

imagination

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

-Thomas Merton

inspirational

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

-Thomas Merton

learning

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

-Thomas Merton

life

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

-Thomas Merton

life

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

life

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

life

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

-Thomas Merton

love

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

love

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

-Thomas Merton

love

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

men

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

music

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

nature

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

peace

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

-Thomas Merton

peace

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

-Thomas Merton

peace

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

-Thomas Merton

strength

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

-Thomas Merton

time

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

time

Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

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.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

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.

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.

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.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

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.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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.

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.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

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.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

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