Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

#enables #find #lose #ourselves #same

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

— Thomas Merton

#another #destiny #find #life #love

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#life #spirituality #life

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

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#enquiry #silence #solitude #solitude

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#inspirational

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#reason #faith

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

— Thomas Merton

#balance #harmony #intensity #matter #order

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#self-awareness

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real ↗

— Thomas Merton

#humility