Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes imp…

Thomas Merton
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Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone. ✨ New Seeds of Contemplation.
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Our real journey in life is interior. ✨ Thomas Merton (1975). The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, p.296, New Directions Publishing
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.99, Macmillan
Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.434, Houghton Mifflin … ▶
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007) … ▶
Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen. ✨ Thomas Merton (20 … ▶

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone. ✨ New Seeds of Contemplation.

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