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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom - Thomas Merton Quotes

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom

A daydream is an evasion. - Thomas Merton Quotes

A daydream is an evasion.

American Author

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

American Author Earth

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell - Thomas Merton Quotes

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

Hell

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for themÃ¢â¬Â¦. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. - Thomas Merton Quotes

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for themÃ¢â¬Â¦. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

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 Quotes

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.

American Author inspirational Love

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt - Thomas Merton Quotes

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

American Author

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. - Thomas Merton Quotes

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America American Author

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real - Thomas Merton Quotes

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. - Thomas Merton Quotes

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

American Author Choice

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. - Thomas Merton Quotes

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

American Author Life

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. - Thomas Merton Quotes

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

American Author Awareness

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

American Author Conscience

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. - Thomas Merton Quotes

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. - Thomas Merton Quotes

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

American Author Future

An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck. - Thomas Merton Quotes

An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.

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... - Thomas Merton Quotes

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...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. - Thomas Merton Quotes

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

American Author Discovery

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.

American Author Destiny

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

American Author Art

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times. - Thomas Merton Quotes

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is itself to succumb to the violence of our times.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

American Author

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton Quotes

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

American Author

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. - Thomas Merton Quotes

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

American Author

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. - Thomas Merton Quotes

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

American Author

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell - Thomas Merton Quotes

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell

Life

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 - Thomas Merton Quotes

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

Peace

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

American Author

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. - Thomas Merton Quotes

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

American Author

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. - Thomas Merton Quotes

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

American Author Life

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. - Thomas Merton Quotes

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.

Faith

We do not exist for ourselves... - Thomas Merton Quotes

We do not exist for ourselves...

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. - Thomas Merton Quotes

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Affection Silence Solitude

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. - Thomas Merton Quotes

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. - Thomas Merton Quotes

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

Spirit And Spirituality

When ambition ends, happiness begins. - Thomas Merton Quotes

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Ambition Hungarian Proverbs

I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it - Thomas Merton Quotes

I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it

There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him. - Thomas Merton Quotes

There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. - Thomas Merton Quotes

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

American Author

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

American Author

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

American Author

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. - Thomas Merton Quotes

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

American Author

Perhaps I am stronger than I think - Thomas Merton Quotes

Perhaps I am stronger than I think

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. - Thomas Merton Quotes

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

Colleges And Universities

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. - Thomas Merton Quotes

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

American Author

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. - Thomas Merton Quotes

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

American Author

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