Thomas Merton Quotes

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

Man does not live by bread alone.

If you're just focused on work, my view is that you'll never get enough back from any organization, no matter how fantastic the role is, and you have to have a full life so that you really get enriched in a lot of different ways, and that can be family and kids. It can be, for others, sports.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

Spirituality has greatly enriched me and I hope it does so to others, too.

It's amazing how when you feel healthy from the inside out, you show it.

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Some recent studies show that people who are taught to forgive become 'less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious and less stressed,' which leads to greater physical well-being. Another of these studies concludes 'that forgiveness ... is a liberating gift [that] people can give to themselves.'

You should be as alive as you can, until you're totally dead!

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.