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. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

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We do not exist for ourselves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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A daydream is an evasion. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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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

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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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