Thomas Merton Quotes About Individuality

Quotes about: Individuality

• Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Giving, Individuality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

• Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

  Thomas Merton

  Names, Numbers, Giving

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

• The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Order, Personality

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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