If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
Thomas MertonThere is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.
Thomas MertonHow do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
Thomas Merton