Angela

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“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 solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.”
― Thomas Merton

“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”
― Thomas Merton