We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen. — Thomas Merton Humans Copy Share Image
“Si ascendero in coelum, tu illic es. Si descendero in infernum, ades.” — Thomas Merton Amor Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make… — Thomas Merton Body Copy Share Image
I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the… — Thomas Merton Father Copy Share Image
The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton Alive Copy Share Image
The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“It is true that God knows Himself in all the things that exist. He sees them, and it is because He sees… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our… — Thomas Merton Belief Copy Share Image
Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we… — Thomas Merton Deficiencies Copy Share Image
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love… — Thomas Merton Awakening Copy Share Image
“The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit out own… — Thomas Merton Beginning Copy Share Image
“Those who refuse His mercy satisfy His justice in another way. Without His mercy, they cannot love Him. Without love for Him… — Thomas Merton Atheism Copy Share Image
“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected… — Thomas Merton Contemplation Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and… — Thomas Merton Acceptance Copy Share Image
“How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in western Europe, when Goth and Frank and… — Thomas Merton City of god Copy Share Image
You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude."… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu: “All your teaching is centered on what has no use.” Chuang replied: “If you have no… — Thomas Merton Education Copy Share Image
“My opinion is that it is a very extraordinary thing for anyone to be upset by such a topic. Why should anyone… — Thomas Merton Compassion Copy Share Image
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton Beautiful Copy Share Image
