Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. - Thomas Merton 1 Share Now -
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. - Thomas Merton 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
