....reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

Do not depend on the hope of results.
You may have to face the fact that your work will be
apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all,
if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.
As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to
concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness,
the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and
less for an idea and more and more for specific people.
In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that
saves everything.

--Thomas Merton

....Beyond all and in all is God.

Either you look at the universe as a
very poor creation out of which
no one can make anything, or you look
at your own life and your own part in
the universe as infinitely rich, full of
inexhaustible interest, opening out
into the infinite further possibilities for
study and contemplation an praise.
Beyond all and in all is God.

Thomas Merton 17.07.1956