Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
-Thomas Merton

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
-Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
-Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
-Thomas Merton