Thomas Merton Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Wisdom, Greatness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

• Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Special, Degrees

  Thomas Merton (1993). “The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers”, p.345, Macmillan

• If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

  Thomas Merton

  Glasses, Color, Consciousness

  Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon (2010). “Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey: Writings on Contemplation”, p.222, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Consciousness, Form

  Thomas Merton (2000). “Thoughts On The East”, p.43, A&C Black

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