Thomas Merton

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Born

1915

Died

1968

Works

473

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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was a 20th century Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, in the U.S. state of Kentucky, Merton was a poet, a social activist, a student of comparative religion as well as the author of numerous works on spirituality. He wrote more than 60 books, scores of essays and reviews, and is the subject of several biographies. Merton was a keen proponent of inter-religious understanding, engaging in spiritual dialogues with the Da

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5 total works indexed

1. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

   · 2001 · cited 163,217x

2. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,951x

3. U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

   · 2015 · cited 59,840x

4. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 51,051x

5. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 44,323x

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Quotes

• “To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”
• “A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying God. It “consents,” so to speak, to God's creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree.”
• “The biggest human temptation is … to settle for too little.”
• “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.”
• “The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
• “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1915-01-31 ) January 31, 1915, Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales , France

Died

December 10, 1968 (1968-12-10) (aged 53), Mueang Samut Prakan , Thailand

Citizenship

United States

Alma mater

Columbia University

Occupations

Trappist monk author

Religion

Christianity ( Roman Catholic )

Church

Latin Church

Ordained

May 26, 1949 (1949-05-26) (aged 34)

Writings

The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

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