Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
Our real journey in life is interior. - Thomas Merton
Our real journey in life is interior.
- Thomas Merton
True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce… - Thomas Merton
True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce…
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. - Thomas Merton
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you. - Thomas Merton
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His … - Thomas Merton
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His …
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blos… - Thomas Merton
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blos…
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience. - Thomas Merton
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges… - Thomas Merton
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges…
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know my… - Thomas Merton
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know my…
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