Thomas Merton Quotes

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

I want to get to know God.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

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.