Thomas Merton słynne cytaty
Thomas Merton Cytaty o Bogu
Źródło: Siedmiopiętrowa góra
„Jeśli będziesz pisać dla Boga, dotrzesz do wielu ludzi i sprawisz im radość.”
Źródło: Nowe ziarna kontemplacji, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wydawnictwo Esprit, Kraków 2017, ISBN 978-83-65706-18-8, s.147
Thomas Merton cytaty
Źródło: Dziennik azjatycki, Znak, Kraków 1993, cyt. za Przekroczyć próg mądrości, Kraków 1997
Thomas Merton: Cytaty po angielsku
Źródło: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Kontekst: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
Źródło: Thoughts in Solitude
Wariant: The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Źródło: The Way of Chuang Tzu
Źródło: Thoughts in Solitude