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Thomas Merton

American Author

Born: Jan 31, 1915

Died: Dec 10, 1968

God Life Love Me Own You

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

Art Time Lose Ourselves Find Enables Same Same Time Us

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton

Love Relationship Love Is Reflection Beginning Own Otherwise Our Those Ourselves Find Only Perfectly Fit Them Themselves Twist Image

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton

Pride Humility Makes Real Artificial Us

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

Happiness Balance Matter Harmony Intensity Order Rhythm

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

Truth War Peace Sacrifice Difficult Heroic Heroism More Purity Perfect Demands Most Greater Labor Than Fidelity Much Conscience

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. Thomas Merton

God Peace Others Ourselves Because

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas Merton

Too Settle Temptation Human Biggest Little

Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton

Stronger Think Perhaps Am Than

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. Thomas Merton

Music God Nature Me World Sky Pure Fire Reading Trees Charged Seems Feel Feet Around Renewed Glory Am Green Blue Scriptures Whole Cooler Deeper

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 Good Reward Care Own Other Secondary One Thing Seeks Only Take Take Care Leaves Effects Loved Themselves Therefore Thing

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. Thomas Merton

History You Political Hell Study Political History Modern Nations Want Social

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. Thomas Merton

Time Will Seek Give Make Known Itself Us

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

Life Responsibility Somebody Shifting Own Living Analysis Else Out Responsible Find Finding Individual Individual Person He Fails Himself His Existence Persists Person Meaning Meaning Of Last

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

Life God Me Signs My Life Mercy Ways Some Very Contradictions

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