Merton Monday: Love and Togetherness
"We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”
Merton Monday: ‘Mistakes are part of our life.’
'It is true that we make many mistakes. But the biggest of them all is to be surprised at them...'
Merton Monday: Thoughts on Transformation
Thomas Merton on the importance of transformation — and the need to sacrifice in the process.
Merton Monday: Loving someone for who they are
“But to love another as a person we must begin by granting him his own autonomy and identity as a person..."
Merton Monday: On hope and humanity
"Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages..."
Merton Monday: Our interior world
Thoughts from "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander."
Merton Monday: We are already one
"The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept."
Merton Monday: Protesting the forces of injustice and destruction
"The faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these..."
Merton Monday: It takes more courage than we imagine…
Thomas Merton on courage, fear and frankness with our fellow man.
Merton Monday: On hope and patience
We are saved by hope for that which we do not see...
