#merton

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

#merton #thomas merton #quote #art #artist #painting #meaning of art #aesthetics #femme #beauty #introspection #arts #culture

[warverse]

I missed drawing Iris so here she is along with Merton, Riverperson and Core (Core from Gravition, my own side story)

#Warverse #Iris #Merton #Riverperson #Core #UTMV #undertale au #Graviton #ToxArt #Mettaton #RP #hehe robots go brr #Undyne #SwapFell #SwapFell Undyne #sketches #perishes

[jetslay]

DC League of Super-Pets concept art by Ryan Carlson.

#Superman #Krypto #DC League of Super-Pets #Lois Lane #Justice League #Batman #Wonder Woman #Aquaman #Flash #Cyborg #Jessica Cruz #Green Lantern #Lex Luthor #ace #PB #Merton #Chip #Mercy Graves #Clark Kent #Bruce Wayne #Diana Prince #Arthur Curry #Barry Allen #Victor Stone #Ryan Carlson #DC Comics #art

[omfgingers]

#sims #sims 3 #ts3 #simblr #my sims #delilah #merton

[wr-n]

*FROTHS AT THE MOUTH*

Sane, Seek, Merton, Blue - @toxictoxicities, @warverse, and Toby Fox Cheshire - @alch3mic

Hound - @doloshroom

Hypergade - @blvdcharms and @lonertale

Asriel - Toby Fox

#warverse #sane #asriel #hypergade #seek #mettaton #cheshire #blue #fanart #wraith art #merton

[jd-205]

DC League of Super-Pets (2022)

My gifs

#dc league of super pets #league of super pets #super pets #dc #dc league of super-pets #krypto #ace #pb #merton #chip #mark #keith #super dog #bat hound #wonder pig

[threshasketch]

Merton the halfling barbarian and Xalia the yuan-ti rogue-monk. Neither looks very obviously like their class, do they?

#merton #xalia #dungeons and dragons #d&d #halfling #yuan-ti #rogue #monk #barbarian #threshie #threshasketch #had lots of fun drawing xalia's outfit per description from her player #there's a couple more party members I'll be drawing merton with #my goal is a pic of him with everybody

[travelling-my-little-pony]

It’s the first day of the month, so it’s Love Wishes With A Letterbox Day!

Here is Love Wishes with a clever crochet bus on a letterbox (it’s right next to Merton Bus Garage).

In Merton, in London, England.

#My Little Pony #g3 #love wishes #letterbox #letter box #mail box #post box #merton #london bus #england #london

[the-mindful-astronaut]

“The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.”

Thomas Merton

"Seeds of contemplation"

#mindfulness #mindful meditation #contemplative #meditation #mindfulliving #thomas merton #Merton #the mindful astronaut

[guy60660]

z.a.o 

#肇 _ #artsy #merton #z.a.o

[locustheologicus]

I was finally given the opportunity to obtain and read Thomas Merton's autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain." This is an amazing story of one man's search for truth and wisdom in the mid-20th century. It's a great read for anyone who is a seeker of philosophical/theological truths and who is non-judgementally open to the experiences of the world.

Merton eventually becomes an ascetic monk, but this lifestyle does not remove him from the experience and beauty of the world. He passionately absorbs the world and the relationships he develops. Initially, he is a philosophical atheist who struggles to find meaning in this world; what Catholicism and monasticism eventually offer is not a departure or deprivation from this world. Instead, he is able to center himself on God, the ultimate source of Truth and Love. This allows him to balance the experience and relationships he encounters. This book is an amazing journey of one man's reflective pursuit towards truth, beauty, happiness, and meaning.

One passage I want to share in this post is in chapter three, when he undertook his personal journey as an adolescent who just lost his father. He finally encounters the world of prayer and has a mystical experience that will eventually (although not immediately) change him. At that moment, he encounters sacred scripture. Until then, he enjoyed the poetic and philosophical musings of D.H. Lawrence whose religious exposition was tainted by a right-wing political affiliation. Evidently, this author was in favor of dictatorship and social order. This ideological orientation would color his religious lens. Merton recognizes this after he finally reads the Bible for the first time and sees this poet's fallacy. As Merton describes it:

One evening, when I was reading these poems, I became so disgusted with their falseness and futility that I threw down the book and began to ask myself why I was wasting my time with a man of such unimportance as this. For it was evident that he had more or less completely failed to grasp the true meaning of the New Testament, which he had perverted in the interest of a personal and home-made religion of his own which was not only fanciful, but full of unearthly seeds, all ready to break forth into hideous plants like those that were germinating in Germany's unweeded garden, in the dank weather of Nazism.

This passage highlights for me the concern I have for the emerging Christian nationalism that Merton saw developing in Europe of the mid 1930's. His journey towards the truth is to be free of the ideological perversions that filter religious interpretation and to read the joy of the Gospel himself in order to authentically find God in the story of Jesus, the story of service, healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This is not the Gospel narrative of Christian nationalism.

The purpose of Christianity is to find the deepest meaning of who you are by connecting oneself with the source of both our entire being and the whole of creation. Scripture and the beauty of our tradition imparts this wisdom on us. Do not let the perversion of Christian nationalism and its hatred for our diverse world defile the beauty of our Christian faith and the movement that Jesus and the early church started. Take time to go to the source and rediscover what it means to truly be a disciple of Christ.

May the wisdom of Merton's experience be a spiritual guide for us in these troubled times.

#thomas merton #merton

[lainebutt]

I Merton on the J till I Dingle

#bwoc #Merton #big wolf on campus

[omfgingers]

#sims #sims 3 #ts3 #simblr #my sims #merton

[toxictoxicities]

What’s this? A sketch dump? yeah XD

Keep: @underkeepau Merton: @warverse / @toxictoxicities That tiny shroom who’s simping: @doloshroom Iris: @nishimori38 DT!Undyne: @sagaverse/ @revolvius Horror: @horrortalecomic Dust: @ask-dusttale

#Warverse #Sketches #The Undynes are a crackship guys XD #just for funsies #HorrorDust #HorrorDustAxe #theres no Axe in the sketch there cause I hadnt done his ref qq #Keep #Merton #Muffet #Mettaton #DTUndyne #Sagaverse #Dolosss #shroom simp #I mean fair Merton is a queen #ToxArt #sketch dump #Iris #I think I tagged everything #SwapFell #UnderKeep #DustTale #HorrorTale #idk

[aryburn-trains]

Christmas Train Arriving Sombertown

Illinois Central's Santa train, led by E9A 101, is seen arriving in Merton in central Illinois back on December 8, 2012. The weather was bleak as were the colors of the train, mostly gray and black. Festive, huh?

#santa train #cn #canadian national #ic #illinois central #2012 #trains #passenger train #history #merton #illinois #business car

[threshasketch]

My halfling barbarian, Merton, and the party's dry-humored leonin fighter, Drythur. These two are going to be quite the duo once the new campaign starts...

#dungeons and dragons #d&d #merton #drythur #leonin #halfling #fighter #barbarian #threshie #threshasketch #Merton's coat changes every pic whoops LOL