American - Author | January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
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