Inspirational Quotations by Thomas Merton
- What can we gain by sailing to the moon if
we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
- We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
- Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.