Merton Monday: Love and Togetherness
"We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”
"We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another.”
'It is true that we make many mistakes. But the biggest of them all is to be surprised at them...'
Thomas Merton on the importance of transformation — and the need to sacrifice in the process.
“But to love another as a person we must begin by granting him his own autonomy and identity as a person..."
"Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages..."
Thoughts from "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander."
"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."
"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..."
Thomas Merton on courage, fear and frankness with our fellow man.
We are saved by hope for that which we do not see...