Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. – Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. We go forth austere, dedicated, believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life: but a book, or a bust, or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will… – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men: Seven Lectures, “IV: Montaigne; Or, the