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Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer

Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer

1997 ·
·4.39·86 Ratings ·526 Pages
“ Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. ” ― Michelangelo
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  • Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings

    2004·
    ·4.21·343 Ratings
    The Private MertonThis intensely personal book from the ultimate spiritual writer of our time shows his contemplative and devotional side through his prayers and rarely seen drawings.  Capturing the quiet epiphanies in the life of a Trappist monk who was
  • A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals

    2004·
    ·4.29·170 Ratings
    A 365 daily with inspirational and provocative selections from the journals of Thomas Merton combined with drawings and photographs by Merton.This volume of daily inspiration from Thomas Merton draws from Merton's journals and papers to present, each day,
  • The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals

    2001·
    ·4.26·245 Ratings
    In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path. Culled from the seven volumes of his personal journals, this twenty nine year chronicl
  • The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation

    2004·
    ·4.3·197 Ratings
    Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in ever
  • The New Man

    1999·
    ·4.23·185 Ratings
    The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of our true selves? By way of an answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourselves
  • The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

    1975·
    ·4.24·371 Ratings
    "The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thoma
  • Thoughts in Solitude

    1999·
    ·4.22·1,624 Ratings
    Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Mer
  • The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

    1980·
    ·4.24·150 Ratings
    In 1944, New Directions brought out Thomas Merton’s first book of verse. By the time of his tragic, untimely death in 1968, Father Louis (as he was known at the Trappist monastery where he lived for twenty-seven years) had published upwards of fifty boo
  • Mystics and Zen Masters

    1999·
    ·4.12·322 Ratings
    Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-
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