Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.


Seeds (ed. 2002)

Thomas Merton Quotes

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more...

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more...

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more...

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more...