"The Seven Storey Mountain" Quotes
A spiritual autobiography of Thomas Merton's journey from a young man seeking worldly success to a Trappist monk.
religion | 467 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The philosophy of Hell is to make of love something that is not love, to make of a human relation something that is not a human relation.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people.
Solitude is not separation from others, it is a deepening of the relationship with them.
The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self, and enter by love into union with the Life who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls.
The only way to find out anything about the joys of love is by making a complete and generous gift of oneself.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
