What am I living for? “If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for” — Thomas Merton Kenneth AndertMay 7, 2017quotes, Thomas MertonComment
Dance “We are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the winds, and join in the general dance ” — Thomas Merton Kenneth AndertApril 27, 2017quotes, Thomas MertonComment
Choosing a path “A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.” — Thomas Merton Kenneth AndertOctober 22, 2016Thomas Merton, quotesComment
Two Masters “A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ” — Thomas Merton Kenneth AndertAugust 19, 2015Thomas Merton, quotesComment
Not to Twist Love “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ” — Thomas Merton Kenneth AndertApril 17, 2015quotes, Thomas Merton, LoveComment
The All is no-thing “The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All. ” — Thomas Merton Kenneth AndertNovember 19, 2014quotes, Thomas MertonComment