Thomas Merton - The Sign of Jonas (1953)

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I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.

Thomas Merton
Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.

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Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.

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Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.

Thomas Merton
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Thomas Merton
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

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The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Thomas Merton
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

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Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

Thomas Merton