Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgr…

Thomas Merton
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Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. ✨ Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, p.379, New Directions Publishing
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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.
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.136, Macmillan
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.134, Shambhala Publications
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything, or you look at your own life and your own part in the universe as infinitely rich, full of inexhaustible … ▶
It might be good to open our eyes and see. ✨ Thomas Merton (2010). Zen and the Birds of Appetite, p.92, New Directions Publishing

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. ✨ Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton, p.379, New Directions Publishing

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