The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches. — Thomas Merton Desert Copy Share Image
“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. — Thomas Merton Alive Copy Share Image
Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. — Thomas Merton Inspirational Copy Share Image
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of. — Thomas Merton Night Copy Share Image
“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.” — Thomas Merton God Copy Share Image
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. — Thomas Merton Despair Copy Share Image
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in… — Thomas Merton Finding god Copy Share Image
The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept. — Thomas Merton Communication Copy Share Image
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Fallacy Copy Share Image
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of… — Thomas Merton Music Copy Share Image
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I will never be able to find myself if I isolate myself from the rest of mankind as if I were a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not… — Thomas Merton Clever Copy Share Image
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is… — Thomas Merton Contemplative Copy Share Image
Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
“It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it… — Thomas Merton Saint Copy Share Image
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by… — Thomas Merton Desire Copy Share Image
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because… — Thomas Merton Decision Copy Share Image
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value… — Thomas Merton Ability Copy Share Image
“Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself… — Thomas Merton Father Copy Share Image
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When the light of God's truth begins to find its way through the mists of illusion and self-deception with which we have… — Thomas Merton Earthly things Copy Share Image
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,… — Thomas Merton Anxiety Copy Share Image
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech,… — Thomas Merton Comforting Copy Share Image
“The wise man has struggled to find You in his wisdom, and he has failed. The just man has striven to grasp… — Thomas Merton Belief Copy Share Image
The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys… — Thomas Merton Attraction Copy Share Image
“As soon as man is fully disposed to be alone with God, he is alone with God no matter where he may… — Thomas Merton Alone with god Copy Share Image
Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
