71 ordspråk av Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton föddes den 31 januar 1915 och dog den 10 december 1968 - French Monk
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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.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that 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

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

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.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it

There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me into the cloister. He rides my shoulders I cannot lose him.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

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