If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
Thomas MertonIn humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
Thomas MertonAnd that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
Thomas MertonThe danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".
Thomas Merton