Quotes from Thomas Merton

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

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 a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.