Action and contemplation…
Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The purpose of our lives…
The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
No one is so wrong…
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Cleansed and reordered…
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The beginning of love…
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
In prayer we discover…
In prayer we discover what we already have. You start from where you are and you deepen what you already have, and you realize you are already there. We have everything but we don’t know it and don’t experience it. Everything has been given us in Christ. All we need is to experience what we already possess.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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