When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children.
Thomas MertonNo writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Thomas MertonThe fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
Thomas MertonThe greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
Thomas MertonEach particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.
Thomas Merton