Blog Posts on thomas merton

Noynoy's prayer by New Philippine Revolution on Feb 16, 2011My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,I do not see the road ahead of me.I cannot know for certain where it will end.Nor do I really know myself,and the fact that I think I am following your willdoes not mean that I am actually doing so.But I b...

Noynoy's prayer by New Philippine Revolution on Feb 16, 2011My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going,I do not see the road ahead of me.I cannot know for certain where it will end.Nor do I really know myself,and the fact that I think I am following your willdoes not mean that I am actually doing so.But I b...

keeping still by default mode on Apr 5, 2010..the true contemplative is not the one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect or anticipate the word that will transform his darkness into ligh...

Where to Find Solitude by Philippine Theo Law Gee on Feb 25, 2010Solitude is not found so much by looking outside the boundaries of your dwelling, as by staying within. Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you...

Lucid Silence by Philippine Theo Law Gee on Feb 9, 2010The best thing for me is lucid silence that does not even imagine it speaks to anybody. A silence in which I see no interlocutor, frame no message for anyone, formulate no word either for man or paper. There will still be plenty to say when the time...

Solitude as Vocation by Philippine Theo Law Gee on Feb 8, 2010It is clear to me that solitude is my vocation, not as a flight from the world but as my place in the world, because for me to find solitude is only to separate myself from all the forces that destroy me and destroy history, in order to be united wit...

To Belong to No One But God by Philippine Theo Law Gee on Jan 23, 2010Standing on rock. Present. The reality of the present and of solitude divorced from past and future. To be collected and gathered up in clarity and silence and to belong to God and to be nobody else’s business… To belong to God I have to...

When You Make a Mistake by Philippine Theo Law Gee on Jan 20, 2010The thing to do when you have made a mistake is not to give up doing what you were doing and start something altogether new, but to start over again with the thing you began badly and try, for the love of God to do it well. - Thomas Merton, The Sign...

Renouncing a Vocation by Philippine Theo Law Gee on Jul 29, 2009Somehow, I have to give up this thing that I love above everything else on earth because the love of God is greater… to renounce the purest of all vocations simply because it is not the one God has chosen for me – to accept something in w...

Today is a Friday by I Shall Write on Jul 3, 2009Fridays are special for meIt zips working days to weekend excitementsI thought of many things today and wrote some letters - all of which liberates the pangs of my beliefWise men say, there are 3 sides of an opinion: what I think, what others think,...