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Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic.

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

Tags: Time, Find, Same
Thomas Merton

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

Tags: God, Him, Listening
Thomas Merton

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Tags: Life, Last, Questions
Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Tags: Nature, Music, Fire
Thomas Merton

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.

Tags: Peace, Others, Ourselves
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.

Tags: Love, Care, Themselves
Thomas Merton

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

Tags: Peace, Heart, Eyes
Thomas Merton

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.

Tags: Myself, Truth, Step
Thomas Merton

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

Tags: Life, Ways, Mercy
Thomas Merton

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

Tags: Matter, Balance, Order
Thomas Merton

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