Quotes about Connection
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
— Thomas Merton
This unity in love is one of the most characteristic works of the inner self, so that paradoxically the inner "I" is not only isolated but at the same time united with others on a higher plane, which is in fact the plane of spiritual solitude.
— Thomas Merton
If I am to love my brother, I must somehow enter deep into the mystery of God's love for him.
— Thomas Merton
Like all life, it grows sick and dies when it is uprooted from its proper element.
— Thomas Merton
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with his mind and lips, but in a certain sense with his whole being.
— Thomas Merton
THE more I become identified with God, the more will I be identified with all the others who are identified with Him. His Love will live in all of us. His Spirit will be our One Life, the Life of all of us and Life of God. And we shall love one another and God with the same Love with which He loves us and Himself. This love is God Himself.
— Thomas Merton
As the car was turning around to start down the avenue John Paul turned around and waved, and it was only then that his expression showed some possibility that he might be realizing, as I did, that we would never see each other on earth again.
— Thomas Merton
We only know Him in so far as we are known by Him, and our contemplation of Him is a participation in His contemplation of Himself.
— Thomas Merton
When the Love of God is in me, God is able to love you through me and you are able to love God through me. If my soul were closed to that love, God's love for you and your love for God and God's love for Himself in you and in me, would be denied the particular expression which it finds through me and through no other.
— Thomas Merton
Because God's love is in me, it can come to you from a different and special direction that would be closed if He did not live in me, and because His love is in you, it can come to me from a quarter from which it would not otherwise come. And because it is in both of us, God has greater glory.
— Thomas Merton
We have found Him, He has found us. We are in Him, He is in us. There is nothing further to look for except for the deepening of this life we already possess. Be content.
— Thomas Merton
to put words together in a such a way that they exercise a mysterious and vital reactivity among themselves, and so release their secret content of associations to produce in the reader an experience that enriches the depths of his spirit in a manner quite unique.
— Thomas Merton