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In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Discipline
Confusion
Silence
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
MovingOn
Faith
Courage
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Faith
Believe
Inspiration
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Love
Spiritual
Wisdom
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Faith
Gratitude
Grateful
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wisdom
Emotional
Mind
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wind
Tree
Forests
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wisdom
Communication
Levels
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Roots
Demand
Want
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Silence
Objects
Cease
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wall
Climbing
People
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Grace
God
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Important
Devil
Theology
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Ordinary
Alive
OrdinaryThings
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wisdom
Struggle
Reality
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Journey
Differences
Joy
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Peace
Hate
War
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Relationship
UnconditionalLove
Reflection
Our real journey in life is interior.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Real
Journey
Conformity
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wisdom
Hurt
InsignificantThings
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