Thomas Merton Quote

Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own life and your own part in the universe as infinitely rich, full of inexhaustible interest, opening out into infinite further possibilities for study and contemplation and interest and praise. Beyond all and in all is God.


A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life (ed. Harper San Francisco, 1996)


Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own life and your own part in the...

Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own life and your own part in the...

Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own life and your own part in the...

Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own life and your own part in the...