Helping One Another to Love – Thomas Merton

…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 if should not be just a little in-growing love. It should be a love that reaches out to everybody. — Thomas Merton in California: The Redwood Conferences & Letters edited by David M. Odorisio (p. 52)