Thomas Merton
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."
"الحب قدرنا الحقيقي. لا نكتشف معنى الحياة بمفردنا، بل نجده مع الآخر."
Thomas Merton
Love and Living
"I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home."
"كنت تائهاً لا أدري وجهتي، ولا أرى ما سأفعله حين أبلغها. لكنك رأيت أبعد مني وأوضح، وشققت البحار أمام سفينتي، فكان مسارها يعبر بي المياه إلى مكان لم أحلم به قط، وكنت أنت حينها تعدّه لي خلاصاً ومأوىً ودياراً."
Thomas Merton
The Seven Storey Mountain
"To allow oneself to be carried away By a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,... To commit oneself to too many projects,To want to help everyone with everything Is to succumb to violence."
"أن تترك نفسك تنجرف في لجّةٍ من الهموم المتضاربة،
وأن تخضع لمطالب لا تُحصى،
وأن تُقحم ذاتك في مشاريع لا تُعدّ،
وأن تسعى لإعانة كل أحد في كل أمر،
هو الوقوع في براثن العنف."
Thomas Merton
"The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both."
"الحج الجغرافي تمثيل رمزي لرحلة داخلية. والرحلة الداخلية هي استقراء لمعاني ودلالات الحج الخارجي. يمكن للمرء أن يحظى بأحدهما دون الآخر، ولكن الأفضل أن يجمع بينهما."
Thomas Merton
"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
"بتلاوة الكتب المقدسة، تتجدد روحي حتى لكأن الطبيعة كلها تتجدد حولي ومعي. يبدو السماء أزرق أنقى وأبرد، والأشجار أخضر أعمق. العالم بأسره يمتلئ بمجد الله، وأشعر بنار وموسيقى تحت قدمي."
Thomas Merton
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"الفنّ يمكّننا من أن نجد ذواتنا ونفقدها في آنٍ واحد."
Thomas Merton
No Man Is an Island
"We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others."
"إن وجودنا ليس لأنفسنا فحسب، وعندما نوقن بهذه الحقيقة تمامًا، حينها فقط نبدأ في حب ذواتنا حقًا، ومن ثم نحب الآخرين."
Thomas Merton
"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."
"كن صالحًا، حافظ على قدميك جافتين، وعينيك متفتحتين، وقلبك في سلام، وروحك في فرح المسيح."
Thomas Merton
"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
"ليس سلامنا مع الآخرين إلا انعكاسًا لافتقادنا السلام مع ذواتنا، وافتقادنا السلام مع ذواتنا ليس إلا انعكاسًا لافتقادنا السلام مع الله."
Thomas Merton
"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."
"إن مجرد البقاء بهدوء في حضرة الله، والإصغاء إليه، والانتباه له، يتطلب الكثير من الشجاعة والبصيرة."
Thomas Merton
"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."
"إن الخطوة الأولى نحو إيجاد الله، وهو الحق، تكمن في اكتشاف الحقيقة عن ذاتي؛ وإن كنت قد ضللت، فإن هذه الخطوة الأولى إلى الحق هي اكتشاف ضلالي."
Thomas Merton
"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."
"أكتوبر، في أمريكا، فصلٌ بديعٌ وخطيرٌ. وقتٌ رائعٌ للشروع في أي شيءٍ على الإطلاق. تلتحق بالجامعة، وكل مقررٍ في الدليل يبدو فاتنًا."
Thomas Merton
"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness."
Thomas Merton
"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom."
"أقل ما يُنجز من عمل التعلّم يكون في قاعة الدرس."
Thomas Merton
"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
Thomas Merton
"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."
Thomas Merton
"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."
Thomas Merton
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
Thomas Merton
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