Thomas Merton Quotes About Mindfulness

Quotes about: Mindfulness

• Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Crow, Mind, Glitter

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

• Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness, Ambition, Mindfulness

  Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

• Take more time, cover less ground.

  Thomas Merton

  Patience, Focus, Mindfulness

• It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

  Thomas Merton

  Creating, Tasks, Mindfulness

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.202, Macmillan

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