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More Quotes by Thomas Merton
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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.
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
Our real journey in life is interior.
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
