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Thomas Merton OCSO
(January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) 


Silence & Contemplation ~ Merton in his own words


Note: James Finley on occasion may utilize the pronoun "she" to refer to God.  In this series, such use (in my opinion) should not be a cause for distraction to the series as a whole. See ​https://www.catholic.com/search?q=god%20pronoun for more on this topic.
More of James Finley: 
https://stmonica.net/ministries/faithformation/ff-finley-201214
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlguZGPDOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKeSoWAaeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OLSAq1hg5k
"The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”      ― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island








Below from "Thoughts in Solitude" by Thomas Merton. p 91-93.
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