Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
men enlightenment sitting
A man searching for enlightenment is like a man sitting on an Ass in search of an Ass
life wisdom men
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
inspirational moon sailing
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
brother communication unity
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
spring catholic action
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
art prayer leisure
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer
peace humanity peace-with-god
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God
journey goes-on
For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
purpose life-is our-lives
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
heart capacity-to-love giving
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
thank-you gratitude awakening
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
life thinking enemy
Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.
differences joy looks
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.