Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Thomas Merton?
→ Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
→ Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
→ If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
→ Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
→ We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
→ The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
→ A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
→ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
→ We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy: sun, wind and tide... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
→ Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
→ Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
One of these may be attributed to Thomas Merton. Which one?
→ Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
→ It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
→ 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.
→ Attachment to spiritual things is just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
→ To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
→ We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
→ I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
→ Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Can you identify the right quote belonging to Thomas Merton?
→ Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.
→ We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
→ We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
→ The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Thomas Merton.
→ Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
→ A drama critic is a guy who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
→ Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
→ Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.
One of the following quotations belongs to Thomas Merton. Which one?
→ A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
→ Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
→ Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
→ Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.
Try to identify the quote attributed to Thomas Merton.
→ I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
→ When playing Russian roulette the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next.
→ You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. So, let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
→ When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
Looks like Thomas Merton is the author of one of these.
→ Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.
→ We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
→ We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
→ A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Pick the one quotation belonging to Thomas Merton.
→ Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
→ We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
→ We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
→ The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
→ In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
→ A drama critic is a guy who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
→ A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
→ Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.