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Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

Thomas Merton
Nice, Simple, Meditation

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Thomas Merton
Meditation
Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon (2010). “Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey: Writings on Contemplation”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding.

Thomas Merton
Heart, Meditation, Doubt
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

Thomas Merton
Meditation, Decision, Matter
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.105, Macmillan

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

Thomas Merton
Spiritual, Men, Meditation
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.54, Macmillan

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