The goal of fasting is inner unity.

More Quotes By Thomas Merton

• The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and...
• There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness....
• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them...
• My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead...
• Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul,...
• Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is...
• You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What...
• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we...
• ‎”Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
• Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
• The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish...
• To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and...
• In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner...
• People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the...
• Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having...