In silence God…
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Become conscious…
Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Our lives, like candles…
Our lives, like candles, spell this simple symbol: Weep like our bodily life, sweet work of bees, Sweeten the world, with your slow sacrifice. And this shall be our praise: That by our glad expense, our Father’s will Burned and consumed us for a parable.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
God is everywhere…
Life is this simple. We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God shows Himself everywhere, in everything – in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without Him. It’s impossible. The only thing is we don’t see it.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Our silence causes…
We must respond to God’s gifts gladly and freely with thanksgiving, happiness and joy: but in contemplation we thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. “Be empty and see that I am God.” It is our emptiness in the presence of the abyss of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him. It is this that causes love of God and wonder and adoration to swim up into us like tidal waves out of the depths of that peace, and break upon the shores of our consciousness in a vast, hushed surf of inarticulate praise, praise and glory!
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
W/o help of the Blessed Mother…
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
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