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nobeerreviews · 2 months
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A golden heaven Sings by itself A song to nobody.
-- Thomas Merton
(Bistrița, Romania)
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blackswaneuroparedux · 8 months
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
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soracities · 1 year
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Thomas Merton, "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann", Raids on the Unspeakable [ID in ALT]
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entheognosis · 5 months
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holysaintscathedral · 9 months
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Thomas Merton, 1955
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thurifer-at-heart · 8 months
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Thomas Merton on "knowing God"
God is invisibly present to the ground of our being: our belief and love attain to him, but he remains hidden from the arrogant gaze of our investigating mind which seeks to capture him and secure permanent possession of him in an act of knowledge that gives power over him.
We know [God] in so far as we become aware of ourselves as known through and through by him. We "possess" him in proportion as we realize ourselves to be possessed by him in the inmost depths of our being. ... Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of the Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently "scientific" knowledge about God, but to come to know him through the realization that our very being is penetrated with his knowledge and love for us.
Our knowledge of God is paradoxically a knowledge not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us.
—Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer, p.61
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quietlotus · 8 months
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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”
— Thomas Merton
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theoptia · 1 year
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Thomas Merton, from "St. Malachy"
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thoughtkick · 10 months
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
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eternal-echoes · 1 year
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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love. And this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”
- Thomas Merton
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dk-thrive · 4 months
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There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life, just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet, this is where Heaven starts. See within yourself, if you can find it. I walked through the field in front of the house, lots of swallows flying, everywhere! Some very near me. It was magical. We are already one, yet we know it not.
— Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton - In His Own Words (Raymond Wells, December 10, 2021) (via Alive on All Channels)
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nobeerreviews · 5 months
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-- Thomas Merton
(Einsiedeln, Switzerland)
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dramoor · 7 months
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"To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is love."
~Thomas Merton
(Photo © dramoor 2014 St. Petersburg, Russia)
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surqrised · 7 months
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
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vedurnan · 3 months
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thomas merton, new seeds of contemplation
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“In a time of drastic change one can be too preoccupied with what is ending or too obsessed with what seems to be beginning. In either case one loses touch with the present and with its obscure but dynamic possibilities. What really matters is openness, readiness, attention, courage to face risk. You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. In such an event, courage is the authentic form taken by love.”
~ Thomas Merton
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