#thomas-merton — Public Fediverse posts
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#ThomasMerton: " #Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology has now got into the game of destroying whole races at once. The destruction of races is not new—just easier." https://bit.ly/4uwHimj
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"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."
Thomas Merton
#Solitude #Meditation #Contemplation #Silence
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Wir können uns nicht mehr darauf verlassen, dass wir von Strukturen unterstützt werden, die jederzeit von einer politischen Macht oder einer politischen Kraft zerstört werden können. (...) Die Zeit, in der man sich auf Strukturen verlassen konnte, ist vorbei. Sie sind gut und sollten uns helfen, und wir sollten das Beste daraus machen. Aber sie können uns genommen werden, und wenn uns alles genommen wird, was tun wir dann?
#ThomasMerton, Asian Journal, 338
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If we strive to be happy by filling all the silences of life with sound, productive by turning all life's leisure into work, and real by turning all our being into doing, we will only succeed in producing a hell on earth.
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I’ll take Name That Author, Alex, for $500.
“There is a paradox that lies in the very heart of human existence. It must be apprehended before any happiness is possible in the soul of a man. The paradox is this: man’s nature, by itself, can do little or nothing to settle his most important problems. If we follow nothing but our natures, our own philosophies, our own level of ethics, we will end up in hell.”
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#ThomasMerton: "The whole idea of #compassion is based on a keen awareness of the #interdependence of all these living things...all part of one another & all involved in one another. " Compassion is the #MoralLaw of interconnectivity w/ others' pain & suffering, joy & celebration. https://bit.ly/4fHp8Wc
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"If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness.
Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence."
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Opened up my email and found that today's poem from poets.org -- "All I can see is nothing" by Sahar Muradi -- opens with a bit of Thomas Merton on silence, nothingness, and the apophatic path... a nice, unexpected accompaniment to my earlier reading!The full Muradi poem is here, and is also excellent:
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Anxiety
It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard.
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#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Listening #Quotes #Silence #ThomasMerton
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Social animal
It is all very well to insist that man is a “social animal”—the fact is obvious enough. But that is no justification for making him a mere cog in a totalitarian machine—or in a religious one either, for that matter. In actual fact, society depends for its existence on the inviolable personal solitude of its members. Society, to merit its name, must be made up not of numbers, or mechanical units, but of persons. To be a person implies responsibility and freedom, and both these imply a certain interior solitude, a sense of personal integrity, a sense of one’s own reality and of one’s ability to give himself to society—or to refuse that gift.
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#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Society #ThomasMerton
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Don’t be afraid to be yourself-your True Self.
Don’t be afraid to use your gifts and giftings-for good.
#DailyThought
#Lent
#JamesFinley
#ThomasMerton
#TurningToTheMystics
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I can’t believe #ThomasMerton was on the banned books table at City of Asylum Bookstore— not anymore, but at one time his writings were banned. #poetry
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"The beginning of love is … the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. 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."
Thomas Merton
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"Solitude is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present, you will never find it." — Thomas Merton
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“This is what you do when you want to know God: You don’t go looking for an object called God. You cultivate the awareness of love in a awake heart.”
Below is a selection of excerpts from talks given by #ThomasMerton on #silence & #contemplation.
Note: The video begins with monks singing/chanting. And between excerpts there are long silent pauses which I find strange, but you can skip through those.
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An excellent lecture on #ThomasMerton, his study of #Buddhism and his building a bridge between Buddhism and Christianity.
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"The person must be rescued from the individual. The free son of God must be saved from the conformist slave of fantasy, passion and convention. The creative and mysterious inner self must be delivered from the wasteful, hedonistic and destructive ego that seeks only to cover itself with disguises."
— Thomas Merton, New Seeds of ContemplationI've been reading #ThomasMerton lately and truly enjoying his insights and prose. And in his spiritual questing I find a friend and guide.
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#HappyBirthday , #ThomasMerton, and #thankyou for the #inspiration of your example 🙏💫
#Monday #MondayMotivation #tuesday #spirituality #faith #religion #quote #quotes #meditation #wisdom #life #gratitude #GoodMorning
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
