On vacation in pre-revolutionary Cuba, Thomas Merton was attending mass when “Something went off inside me like a thunderclap. I knew with the most absolute and unquestionable certainty that before me, directly present to some apprehension or other of mine, which was above that of the senses, was God in all His essence." (The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals)
“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or fable, it is true." (Merton’s final address as novice master; 1965)
“At the centre of our being is a point of nothingness... like a pure diamond... in everybody, and if we could see it, we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely.” (Conjectures)
“The problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.”
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