Thomas Merton Quotes

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The only journey is the one within.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

What you are looking for is within you