Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray. — Thomas Merton Distraction Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions. — Thomas Merton Choices Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. — Thomas Merton Balance Copy Share Image
Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names. — Thomas Merton Country Copy Share Image
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French… — Thomas Merton Day Copy Share Image
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder… — Thomas Merton Climbing Copy Share Image
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind… — Thomas Merton Dimensions Copy Share Image
It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the… — Thomas Merton Charity Copy Share Image
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton Loneliness Copy Share Image
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we… — Thomas Merton Awakening Copy Share Image
Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but… — Thomas Merton Brilliance Copy Share Image
I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to… — Thomas Merton Acceptance Copy Share Image
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
“Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I… — Thomas Merton Desire Copy Share Image
“Far from ruining the purity of solitary prayer, petition guards and preserves that purity. The solitary, more than anyone else, is always… — Thomas Merton Prayer Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains… — thomas merton Copy Share Image
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure… — Thomas Merton Inner wisdom Copy Share Image
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and… — Thomas Merton Action Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you will not be able completely to identify this presence and this continuous action going on within you unless it happens… — Thomas Merton Sacrifice Copy Share Image
See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no… — Thomas Merton Desert Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with… — Thomas Merton Alone with god Copy Share Image
“But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.” — Thomas Merton Desire Copy Share Image
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. — Thomas Merton Education Copy Share Image
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. — Thomas Merton Awareness Copy Share Image
