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Thomas Merton Quotes

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception Picture Quote #1

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife Picture Quote #1

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to Picture Quote #1

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself Picture Quote #1

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful Picture Quote #1

Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves Picture Quote #1

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We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation Picture Quote #1

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love’s sake Picture Quote #1

The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free Picture Quote #1

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart Picture Quote #1

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved Picture Quote #1

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are Picture Quote #1

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When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago Picture Quote #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 Picture Quote #1

For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another? Picture Quote #1

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life Picture Quote #1

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision Picture Quote #1

No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man’s despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning Picture Quote #1

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind Picture Quote #1

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times Picture Quote #1

I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it Picture Quote #1

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for Picture Quote #1

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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit Picture Quote #1

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility Picture Quote #1

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more Picture Quote #1

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both Picture Quote #1

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls Picture Quote #1

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am Picture Quote #1

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The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception (Thomas Merton Quotes) One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife (Thomas Merton Quotes) I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to (Thomas Merton Quotes) Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself (Thomas Merton Quotes) The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful (Thomas Merton Quotes) Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves (Thomas Merton Quotes) We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation (Thomas Merton Quotes) Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love’s sake (Thomas Merton Quotes) The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free (Thomas Merton Quotes) In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart (Thomas Merton Quotes) If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved (Thomas Merton Quotes) We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are (Thomas Merton Quotes) When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago (Thomas Merton Quotes) 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 (Thomas Merton Quotes) For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to another. If my heart does not first belong to me, how can I give it to another? (Thomas Merton Quotes) Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life (Thomas Merton Quotes) May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us (Thomas Merton Quotes) 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 Quotes) If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision (Thomas Merton Quotes) No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man’s despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning (Thomas Merton Quotes) Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind (Thomas Merton Quotes) To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times (Thomas Merton Quotes) I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it (Thomas Merton Quotes) If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for (Thomas Merton Quotes) If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit (Thomas Merton Quotes) The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility (Thomas Merton Quotes) Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more (Thomas Merton Quotes) The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both (Thomas Merton Quotes) To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls (Thomas Merton Quotes) Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am (Thomas Merton Quotes)

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