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BOOKS by Thomas Merton

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Seven Storey Mountain

Seven Storey Mountain more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton's classic account of the intense and brilliant young man who becomes restless in his life, and goes on a quest for faith and peace that leads him first to Catholicism and then to a Trappist monastery.

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No Man is an Island

No Man is an Island more books like this

by Thomas Merton

A collection of sixteen essays which probe the issues of human spirituality.

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New Seeds of Contemplation

New Seeds of Contemplation more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton's lucid reflections upon the way of contemplation are freighted with an almost oracular power, reflecting his own long travels upon that path. The clarity of his voice and the acuity of his understanding find no more powerful combination anywhere in his extensive body of work, a circumstance which has helped make this one of his most ...

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Thoughts in Solitude

Thoughts in Solitude more books like this

by Thomas Merton

The necessity of solitude and silence in every life is the subject of this treasury of insights and meditations by the Trappist monk whose life and writings have had wide influence. A treasure of wisdom for people from all traditions who seek to understand the meaning of solitude. An unabridged miniature edition. Two-color interior.

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Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative Prayer more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer in this classic text. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences--from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism--to create a spiritual path for today.

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The Way of Chuang Tzu

The Way of Chuang Tzu more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Chuang Tzu--considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought--used parables and anecdotes, allegory and paradox, to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao or Way of nature, and dwelling in its unity. The respected Trappist monk Thomas Merton spent several years reading and ...

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Life and holiness

Life and holiness more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton's thoughts on what it means to be holy in the anxious onslaught of modernity.

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A Book of Hours

A Book of Hours more books like this

by Thomas Merton, Kathleen Deignan (Editor), John Giuliani (Illustrator)

Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, some of his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been arranged into A Book of Hours, a rich resource for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly popular ancient monastic practice of ...

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Wisdom of the Desert

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by Thomas Merton

Merton's bestselling tales of the first Christian hermits--unabridged, in a miniature edition. Merton's affection for the spiritual nonconformists who once inhabited the deserts of the Near East shines in these much-loved short tales of their acts and words of wisdom. Two-color interior.

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The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton more books like this

by Thomas Merton

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The Sign of Jonas

The Sign of Jonas more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton's chronicle of his life in a Trappist monastery, which is also a spiritual account of the meaning and certainty he found in his new vocation.

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by Thomas Merton

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Praying the Psalms more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton shows us how to draw out the richness of worship from the psalter and to use it to achieve "the peace that comes from submission to God's will and from perfect confidence in him".......Catholic Review Service

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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation more books like this

by Thomas Merton, William H Shannon

Faithfully compiled by a Merton scholar, the final book of this Trappist monk, writer, and peace and civil rights activist presents both the meaning and the daily practice of contemplation, the heart of monastic and, indeed, religious experience. (Catholic)

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Love and Living more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Posthumously published, this book of essays considers the need for love in learning to live.

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Ascent to Truth more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton writes about Christian mysticism as a tradition and a pathway, drawing many of his observations from the writings of St. John of the Cross, the Spanish Carmelite monk.

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Zen and the Birds of Appetite more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Merton, one of the rare Western thinkers able to feel at home in the philosophies of the East, made the wisdom of Asia available to Westerners. This collection, which represents the best of his lucid essays on Zen from the 1960s, has gone through 20 printings since 1968. Two-color interior.

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The waters of Siloe more books like this

by Thomas Merton

An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé , which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.

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Living Bread more books like this

by Thomas Merton

"The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another?" "We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God." "There is a distinction between a contrite sense of ...

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Spiritual direction and meditation more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Without really raising his voice once the author proceeds to the heart of each of these matters and speaks home truths for which all sorts of people--priests and religious and laity--will be grateful.

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Mystics and Zen Masters more books like this

by Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirety at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts -- early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism -- with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the ...

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Conjectures of a guilty bystander more books like this

by Thomas Merton

A series of notes, opinions and reflections which Merton kept from 1956.

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New Man more books like this

by Thomas Merton

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 answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourselves by our dependence on outward identity and success, while our real need is for a concern with the ...

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Opening the Bible more books like this

by Thomas Merton

This book is to consider some of the special ques-tions and problems which surround the Bible itself--a book for which all blurbs are impossible.

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The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals more books like this

by Thomas Merton, Jonathan Montaldo (Editor), Patrick Hart (Editor)

Selections from Merton's journals chronicle the challenges and the spiritual progress in the Trappist monk's life, reflecting his spiritual vision and self-scrutiny and acting as an accidental autobiography. A companion to his other published spiritual works.

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