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Thomas Merton

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
— Thomas Merton world
Whom the gods love die young.
— Thomas Merton love
We do not exist for ourselves...
— Thomas Merton
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 spiritual
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
— Thomas Merton love
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.
— Thomas Merton life
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 life
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!
— Thomas Merton god
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody elses imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!
— Thomas Merton life
Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.
— Thomas Merton love
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 the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
— Thomas Merton love
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.
— Thomas Merton joy
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.
— Thomas Merton christ
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us...and He has given us everything.Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him.
— Thomas Merton love
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
— Thomas Merton love
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
— Thomas Merton art
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 live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in
— Thomas Merton art
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
— Thomas Merton time
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
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 least of the work of learning is done in the classroom
— Thomas Merton work
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real
— Thomas Merton art
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 ya
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 truth
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 war
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton happiness
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
— Thomas Merton you
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me.
— Thomas Merton life
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 light
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
We do not exist for ourselves.
— Thomas Merton
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 time
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
— Thomas Merton choices
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
— Thomas Merton fire
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 men
A daydream is an evasion.
— Thomas Merton dream
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
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
— Thomas Merton men
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
— Thomas Merton art
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
Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul.
— Thomas Merton life
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 people
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
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
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
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
— Thomas Merton think

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