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Thomas Merton

United States religious and writer (1915-1968)

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Georg Büchner Preis 1995

Some Poems

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
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.
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Bishop Barron on Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master
Silence & Contemplation (PM) | Merton in His Own Words (2013)
Thomas Merton's final talk.
Thomas Merton in His Own Voice
Thomas Merton's Hermitage / A Short Video
Thomas Merton - Selected Teachings for Meditations - Christian Mysticism
Thomas Merton - A Teaching on Realisation/Awakening - Christian Mystics
The Seven Storey Mountain - by Thomas Merton [full audiobook]
Thomas Merton's Prayer
Thomas Merton Documentary
Henri Nouwen on Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton from "Who Cares About The Saints?" with Fr. James Martin, S.J.
Thomas Merton ~ 𝐀 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 ~ Christian Mystics
Where to Begin with Thomas Merton?
Episode 199: Thomas Merton - Saint or Heretic?
Thomas Merton and "M": What Merton's Affair with a Nurse Taught Him About Love and Humanity
The Mystical Life | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
The Gift of Understanding: Luminous Words by Thomas Merton
What Contemplation is Not -Thomas Merton
The Christian In The World | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
The strange death of Thomas Merton
Christian Hope | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
THOMAS MERTON | MODLITWA ODDANIA
Turning to Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton - What is Contemplation? - Christian Mystics
Thomas Merton - Life In His Own Words
Thomas Merton - What Is Contemplation?
The Notion of Grace | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
Kleryk Adam Bilski - Thomas Merton (Official video)
Love For The World | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
Thoughts on Silence | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
Thomas Merton and Father Seraphim Rose: Reflections on Christianity as Social Action
Thomas Merton - What Contemplation is NOT - New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton - Learn to Be Alone - A Meditation/Contemplation on Solitude - Christian Mystics
Thomas Merton - Journey into the Wilderness - New Seeds of Contemplation
The Lifelong Journey of Discovering God and Ourselves: Thomas Merton and the True Self
Modern Masters of Religion
Thomas Merton - Learn to Be Alone - Solitude - New Seeds of Contemplation
Thomas Merton: trecho final da sua última conferência - Legendado (Português)
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton: the Writing Life and the Contemplative Life
Richard Rohr on Thomas Merton
Fr. Richard Rohr :: Thomas Merton :: non-dualism ~❤~
Celtic Spirituality | Thomas Merton Remastered Lecture
A Prayer When You Feel Lost By Thomas Merton
James Finley reads Thomas Merton Quote
"Thomas Merton, BLM, and White Passivity" | Anne Pearson | TEDxBellarmineU
Thomas Merton: A Prophet for Our Time
Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The case against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin
Huston Smith on Meeting with Thomas Merton

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