"The least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun." - Thomas Merton

🌿 Nature

“The least flower with a brimming cup may stand and shade my head from burning sun.”

Merton finds protection and comfort in even the smallest natural offerings.

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”

— Thomas Merton

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”

— Thomas Merton

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy”

— Thomas Merton

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”

— Thomas Merton

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton