Quotes by Thomas Merton

A daydream is an evasion. (Thomas Merton)

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. (Thomas Merton)

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. (Thomas Merton)

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. (Thomas Merton)

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. (Thomas Merton)

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. (Thomas Merton)

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. (Thomas Merton)

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. (Thomas Merton)

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another. (Thomas Merton)

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. (Thomas Merton)