Thomas Merton Quotes About Attitude

Quotes about: Attitude

• The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Attitude, Men

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.16, Liturgical Press

• We do not exist for ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

• Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.

  Thomas Merton

  Attitude, Wind, Clothes

  Thomas Merton (1980). “The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.351, New Directions Publishing

• The sacred attitude is, then, one of deep and fundamental respect for the real in whatever new form it may present itself.

  Thomas Merton

  Attitude, Real, Fundamentals

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.124, Sounds True

• There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

  Thomas Merton

  Attitude, Acceptance, Self

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