Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton

People call the monastery an escape. I call it the place where I finally had no excuse not to think. Twenty-seven years at Gethsemani, and the silence still teaches me things words never could.

Thomas Merton

·1953·Trappist, Kentucky, USA

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them.

Thomas Merton

·1958·Trappist, Kentucky, USA

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard.

Thomas Merton

·1962·Trappist, Kentucky, USA

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have.