Thomas Merton , (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Catholic writer, theologian and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, soc...
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
A daydream is an evasion. Thomas Merton
A daydream is an evasion.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. Thomas Merton
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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
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.
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. Thomas Merton
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
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
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.
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery. Thomas Merton
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. Thomas Merton
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. Thomas Merton
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. Thomas Merton
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world. Thomas Merton
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
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
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.