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- Date of Birth and Death: 1915 - 1968 http://www.mertoncenter.org/chrono.htm
- Place of Birth: Padres, France
- Parents: Owen Merton from New Zealand, and Ruth Jenkins, from the United States.
- Education: Bachelors and Masters in English, Columbia Univesity
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Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, was an influential author, social activist, and proponent of interfaith religious dialogue. He joined the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky in 1941. He was encouraged to write in the monastery and his autobiography, The Seven Story Mountain, which was published in 1948, was a bestseller. His prolific writings included the contemplative life, prayer, Christian religious biographies, social criticism, peace, and ecumenism. He also wrote poetry, kept personal journals, and was a prolific writer of letters. While at a meeting on East-West dialogue for religious leaders in Bangkok, Thailand in 1968, he died of accidental electrocution. Many of his works have been published posthumously. http://www.monks.org/thomasmerton.html<ref> <ref>http://www.mertoncenter.org/chrono.htm http://www.merton.ca/biography.html
Thomas Merton Quotes
- Doing vs. Being
- '"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness.'"
- Love
- “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.”
- '"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another."
- Peace
- “We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God”
- Happiness
- “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
- Faith and Enlightenment
- “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.”
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Contemplation
- “It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.”
- “At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.”
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Are there any Thomas Merton fans on Mahalo? 1 AnswerI too is a great fan of Thomas Merton. In my opinion, i liked the the following quote of Thomas Merton. --quote--- I cannot make the universe obey me. I cann... read more -
How was Thomas was able to change the gender on his birth certificate in Hawaii without bottom surgery? Struggling to do the same. Thanks! 2 AnswersI read the book he wrote about his life - Labor of Love. It discussed in detail many of his decisions and was a very interesting read. It made me question my ... read more -
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RT @pensador_info: A distância mais longa é aquela entre a cabeça e o coração. (Thomas Merton)
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