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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

Thomas Merton
Faith, Believe, Inspiration
Thomas Merton (2009). “Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings”, p.8, Harper Collins

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

Thomas Merton
Faith, Inspiration, America

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

Thomas Merton
Faith, Inspiration, Men
Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

Thomas Merton
Faith, Inspiration, Wind

God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.

Thomas Merton
Faith, Inspiration, Self
Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal (2017). “From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal”, p.312, Counterpoint Press

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