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If you're thinking of New Year's resolutions, you might consider this: "... "deeds of no purpose" ... "a life ...

Fr. Louis (Thomas) Merton (center, white and black habit) and Fr. Jean Leclercq (to his right) at the December 1968 meeting in Bangkok. If t...

"The language used by Zen is therefore in some sense an antilanguage, and the “logic” of Zen is a radical reversal of philosophical log...

"If I stay with the Church it is out of a disillusioned love, and with a realization that I myself could not be happy outside, though I...

photo by Thomas Merton

"It is important to remember the deep, in some ways anguished seriousness of Advent, when the mendacious celebrations of our marketing...

The following thoughts from Merton, sixty years ago, on the last day of Advent, while looking at a picture of Fra Angelico’s “Annunciation”....