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
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
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The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and burn my own hand while burning the other person. Hate itself is the seed of death in my own heart while it seeks death of another. Love is the seed of life in my own heart while it seeks the good of another.
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Love is our true destiny.
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True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
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Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
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O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
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Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.
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Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38
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Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
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Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!
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Love is a special way of being alive.
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Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
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In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.