Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton
The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. – Thomas Merton
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me. – Thomas Merton