DISCOVER MYSELF
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
Thomas Merton
TO BE A SAINT
To be a saint means to be myself.
Thomas Merton
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND - MERTON
Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind. Every Christian is a part of my own body, because we are members of Christ. What I do is also done for them and with them and by them. What they do is done in me and by me and for me.
Nothing at all makes sense, unless we admit, with John Donne, that: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
Thomas Merton
No Man Is An Island
IMAGINED GREATNESS
We all seek to imitate one another’s imagined greatness.
Thomas Merton, No Man is An Island
CONTENT TO LIVE WITHOUT WATCHING OURSELVES LIVE
We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work without expecting an immediate reward, to love without an instantaneous satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition.
Thomas Merton
No Man is An Island