Thomas Merton at Commonweal

This was the city / That dressed herself in paper money. / She lived four hundred years

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order

Is mysticism just for some extraordinary souls?

We cannot give ourselves to God if we do not belong to ourselves

Teilhard is a genius, a unique and providential combination of the scientist and the mystic

Thomas Merton takes issue with Anglican Bishop J. A. T. Robinson’s book that argues that the Christian image has become inadequate in the modern world