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Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

Thomas Merton
Life, Country, Art
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

Thomas Merton
Country, Peace, War
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.121, New Directions Publishing

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.

Thomas Merton
Country, Names, Teach

First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander in dry places." Thirst drives man mad, and the devil himself is mad with a kind of thirst for his own lost excellence--lost because he has immured himself in it and closed out everything else. So the man who wanders into the desert to be himself must take care that he does not go mad and become the servant of the one who dwells there in a sterile paradise of emptiness and rage.

Thomas Merton
Country, Men, Egypt
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.21, Macmillan

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