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Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

Thomas Merton
Journey, Differences, Joy
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

Thomas Merton
Journey, Goes On

Our real journey in life is interior.

Thomas Merton
Real, Journey, Conformity
Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.296, New Directions Publishing

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

Thomas Merton
Real, Heart, Journey
Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.296, New Directions Publishing

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

Thomas Merton
Journey, Men, Cities
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

Thomas Merton
Believe, Journey, Men

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Journey, Acting
Thomas Merton (1999). “Mystics and Zen Masters”, p.92, Macmillan

It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.

Thomas Merton
Humility, Journey, Men
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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