The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
Thomas MertonLove is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
Thomas MertonHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas MertonThe whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonThere is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
Thomas Merton