We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us. – Thomas Merton