Famous Quotes / Thomas Merton
32 Quotations by Thomas Merton
- 21. Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, ...
- 22. The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
- 23. The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...
- 24. The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living ...
- 25. Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where ...
- 26. We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is ...
- 27. We do not exist for ourselves...
- 28. We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who ha ...
- 29. We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to ...
- 30. We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
- 31. We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual ...
- 32. Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act wit ...