Merton Meditations

I'm working on getting back into my love affair with Thomas Merton, so I've signed up to get the weekly reflections updates from the Monastery in Kentucky. It's amazing how easily Merton's words can just jerk me around and connect to my soul. Today's sampling:

Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train. Above, all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life-let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.
 
Thomas Merton. New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions Press, 1961): 216.
 

Thought for the Day

People who only know how to think about God during fixed periods of the day will never get very far in the spiritual life.
 
New Seeds of Contemplation: 216.