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Known Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
- Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and…
- Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that…
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