Thomas Merton Quotes

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

There's more to life than physical and material.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill time watching talk-shows.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

I'm going to do what feeds my soul.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.