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Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk’s life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do (Thomas Merton Quotes)
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally (Thomas Merton Quotes)
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees (Thomas Merton Quotes)
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? (Thomas Merton Quotes)
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them (Thomas Merton Quotes)
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered (Thomas Merton Quotes)
This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the fact that there is no such existence from the first (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age (Thomas Merton Quotes)
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay (Thomas Merton Quotes)
... but any fool knows that you don’t need money to get enjoyment out of life (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent (Thomas Merton Quotes)
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content (Thomas Merton Quotes)
In the devil’s theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong (Thomas Merton Quotes)
What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others (Thomas Merton Quotes)
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible (Thomas Merton Quotes)
If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business... We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that’s it. That is what real freedom is (Thomas Merton Quotes)
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other... The whole purpose of life is to live by love (Thomas Merton Quotes)