May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us. Thomas Merton More Quotes by Thomas Merton More Quotes From Thomas Merton Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. Thomas Merton wisdom spiritual worry Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way. Thomas Merton finals keys answers In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything. Thomas Merton ends wisdom reality Love is its own reward. Thomas Merton unconditional-love love-you love-is Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them. Thomas Merton crow glitter mind The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see. Thomas Merton eye may might The end of the world will be legal. Thomas Merton end-of-the-world wisdom world Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose. Thomas Merton loses charity given The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith. Thomas Merton he-man doubt men It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are. Thomas Merton understanding keys enemy The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety. Thomas Merton lonely loneliness wisdom If you have love you will do all things well. Thomas Merton wells inspirational love The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD. Thomas Merton praise-god adore praise Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. Thomas Merton oneness grace spiritual God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts. Thomas Merton wisdom expression heart But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for. Thomas Merton wisdom hair thinking When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton ambitious ambition ends We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen. Thomas Merton slow-down tempo humans A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree Thomas Merton essence wisdom mean Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God. Thomas Merton voice self mean
