Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.
Thomas MertonSolitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
Thomas MertonWhen society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.
Thomas MertonThere is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
Thomas MertonFor the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
Thomas MertonHurry ruins saints as well as artists.
Thomas MertonTags: trappist-monk
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, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.
Thomas MertonIf our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.
Thomas MertonIf a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Thomas MertonTags: life carpe-diem spirituality
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
Thomas MertonTags: prayer
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