Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O.was an American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth31 January 1915
CityPrades, France
CountryUnited States of America
alone life love meaning ourselves true valentines-day
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
life fool needs
... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.
life men long
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.
life country art
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.
life today
Today will never come again.
life real keys
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 we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.
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Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!
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You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.
law infinite inner-life
Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
spiritual want life-is
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
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There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
life awareness found
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.