then a direct grasp of what is right before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind. Fasting of the heart empties the faculties, frees you from limitations and from preoccupations.”
THOMAS MERTON –“At the centre of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind, or the brutalities of our own will.”
THOMAS MERTON –“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself”. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.”
THOMAS MERTON –“It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent.”
THOMAS MERTON –“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
THOMAS MERTON –“The beginning of love is to let those we love be themselves, and not twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves in them.”
THOMAS MERTON –“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved in one another.”
THOMAS MERTON –“We cannot be happy if expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity Happiness is not a matter
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