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We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

Thomas Merton
Imagination, Kind, Obscure
Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

Thomas Merton
Men, Facts, Made
Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Integrity, Artist
Thomas Merton, M. Basil Pennington (2005). “Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings”, p.22, New City Press

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Christ, Exile
Thomas Merton, M. Basil Pennington (2005). “Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for : Selected Spiritual Writings”, p.58, New City Press

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Practice, Needs

Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!

Thomas Merton
Morning, Lovely, Lovely Life
Thomas Merton (2010). “The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey”, p.34, Harper Collins

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Thomas Merton
Sin, Illusion, Pure
Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.155, Image

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

Thomas Merton
Christian, Mother, Men

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