We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new…

Quote by Thomas Merton

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart:...

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart:...

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart,...

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart,...

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that...

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that...

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a...

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a...

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of...

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about...

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

A daydream is an evasion.

A daydream is an evasion.

We do not exist for ourselves.

We do not exist for ourselves.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves,...

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves,...

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to...

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me...

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me...