“When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.”
"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."
- Thomas Merton
Love
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
- Thomas Merton
Love
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another."
- Thomas Merton
Love
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another."
- Thomas Merton
Love
"There is only one desire: to find the promised land and the freedom of a pure love that is without concern for anything else but love."
- Thomas Merton
Love
"The true spirit of Christmas lies in your heart."
Spirituality
"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
- W.T. Ellis
Spirituality
"That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you."
- Ann Schultz
Spirituality
"Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King."
- Joy to the World
Spirituality
"Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it–you feel it. You know it. You believe it."
- Kevin Alan Milne
Spirituality