Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Thomas Merton
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas Merton
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.
Thomas Merton
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.
Thomas Merton
The painting above is one of my favourite by Jane Evans of Nelson, South Island, NZ.
It's one I've tried a few times to copy to get the technique right. I can't. I haven't yet.
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