854 Quotes by Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

The more selfish you are, the more involved life becomes.

Contemplation is the highest expression of man's intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is a spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness and for being

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Tradition, which is always old, is at the same time ever new because it is always reviving born again in each new generation, to be lived and applied in a new and particular way.