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 MertonThe evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.
Thomas MertonMusic is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
Thomas Merton