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More Quotes by Thomas Merton
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Our real journey in life is interior.
