Thomas Merton Quotes
Thomas Merton Quotes. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them', 'Art enables us to find ourselves and lose. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order.
It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery.
A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.
If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. ~ Thomas Merton.
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