
The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept.
– Thomas Merton
Related Quotes:
- Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 – Thomas Merton
- The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. – Stephen Richards
- Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU? – Ramana Pemmaraju
- True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love. – Eckhart Tolle
- Move what you can do at level one when you get to level one. When you get to level two, you need a bigger power to move it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- There’s nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? – Kahlil Gibran
- She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe. – Jessica Khoury
- When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
- I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so. – Kiera C
- Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
- When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton
- For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be. – Thomas Merton
- We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! – Thomas Merton
- The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
- I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton
- But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
- The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton
- The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton
- In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
- All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton
- Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
- Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
- Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton
- My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
- So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb. – Brandy Nacole
- Tears are a form of communication – like speech – and require a listener. – Erica Jong
- What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? – Walt Whitman
- Troubles often decides your deepest friends,but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble. – Bradley B Dalina
- The internet and online communication is the window into your world – but real life, in person communication / connection is the door. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal. – Dianna Booher
- All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication. – Peter Grdenfors
- To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence. – Haruki Murakami
- I love and enjoy writing.Writing is a form of daily communication.It a communication to higher divine power. – Lailah Gifty Akita