Alone Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton 7
Love Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its... Thomas Merton 11
Music By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees... Thomas Merton 9
Soul Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. Thomas Merton 9
Truth Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth... Thomas Merton 10
Peace We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with... Thomas Merton 10
Death Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a... Thomas Merton 11
