More quotes by Thomas Merton

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"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."