Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O.was an American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth31 January 1915
CityPrades, France
CountryUnited States of America
crucifixion-of-christ joy grace
This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.
pants praying breathe
What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants.
love-is
Love is an intensification of life.
despair may hopeless
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
being-true manifest knows
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
praise praise-god adore
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
destiny men hands
Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.
imagination certain should
The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
beauty reality important
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.
love-is perfection our-love
Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature
learning done classroom
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
ambition ambitious ends
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
visible wholeness
There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.
mystical-experiences perception kind
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.