More quotes by Thomas Merton

"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
"Solitude 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."