I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
Thomas MertonA Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.
Thomas MertonThere is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
Thomas MertonChrist is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
Thomas MertonThe 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 MertonDiscovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice ๏ฟฝout there๏ฟฝ calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice ๏ฟฝin here๏ฟฝ calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
Thomas Merton