A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. — Thomas Merton Balance Copy Share Image
To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration. — Thomas Merton Frustration Copy Share Image
... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life. — Thomas Merton Enjoyment Copy Share Image
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. — Thomas Merton Inspirational Copy Share Image
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads… — Thomas Merton Change Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who… — Thomas Merton Approval Copy Share Image
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will… — Thomas Merton Dark Copy Share Image
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you… — Thomas Merton Future Copy Share Image
To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but… — Thomas Merton Advantage Copy Share Image
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The thing that made Communism seem so plausible to me was my own lack of logic which failed to distinguish between the… — Thomas Merton Communism Copy Share Image
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to… — Thomas Merton Acceptance Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Analysis Copy Share Image
Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all… — Thomas Merton Contemplation Copy Share Image
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Book Copy Share Image
“It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle… — Thomas Merton Inner life Copy Share Image
