Helping One Another to Love – Thomas Merton

“But we should be helping one another — let’s put it in simpler words — to love. We help one another to love more, and you help people to love, not by saying ‘love’ but by loving. That’s the justification of our life: if there is love, it’s justified, and it should a little in-growing love. It should be a love that reaches out to everybody.” — Thomas Merton

From a newly published book edited by David M. Odorisio—Thomas Merton in California: The Redwood Conferences & Letters (p. 52)