SAYINGS

It is difficult to recognize fresh present wakefulness because our basic nature is not an object of thought.

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There are many things to do but one essential to know 

- our own true nature.

 

 

  

Thomas Merton             The Essential of life

The essential of life is not embedded in building, is not embedded in clothing, it's not embedded in necessarily even a rule, but it is somewhere along the line (that) there is something deeper than a role, it is some where concerned with this business of total inner transformation and all other things serve that end.

If you once penetrate by detachment and purity of heart through the inner teachings of the ground of one's ordinary experience, you attain your liberty which nobody can touch, which nobody can effect. This kind of freedom and transcendence are somehow attainable.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all living beings which are all part of one another and all involved in one another.The whole purpose of life is to live by Love.

Merton's last speach in Bangkok December 10, 1968