Thomas Merton, Spiritual Master: The Essential WritingsA one-volume anthology of the spiritual writings of the greatest spiritual master the American Catholic church has produced in this century. The selections, which are substantial in length, provide a generous sampling of Merton's vast output. + |
Contents
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Chronology of Mertons Life | 56 |
From The Seven Storey Mountain | 63 |
Fire Watch July 4 1952 from The Sign of Jonas | 107 |
From Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander | 121 |
Journals 19641965 | 165 |
Day of a Stranger | 214 |
Hagia Sophia | 257 |
From The Wisdom of the Desert | 265 |
A Study from The Behavior of Titans | 280 |
The Inner Experience | 294 |
Learning to Live from Love and Living | 357 |
Contemplation in a World of Action and Is the World | 368 |
Rain and the Rhinoceros from Raids on the Unspeakable | 388 |
A Christian Looks at Zen from Zen and the Birds | 399 |
From The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton | 223 |
From Thoughts in Solitude | 241 |
The General Dance from New Seeds of Contemplation | 251 |
A Letter on the Contemplative Life | 421 |
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Common terms and phrases
abbot Ad Reinhardt awakening awareness become believe Bramachari Brother Buddhism Catholic Christ Christian Christian mysticism Church Cistercian contemplation D.T. Suzuki dark death deep desert Desert Fathers divine enter essays everything evil experience exterior fact faith Father Gethsemani grace Hagia Sophia heart Herakleitos hermit hermitage hidden Holy Spirit human illusion inmost inner intuition kind light liturgy live look Mark Van Doren matter means meditation mercy mind monastery monastic monasticism monk mystery mystical nature never night novices ourselves Patrick Hart peace perhaps person Prajna prayer present problem pure question rain reality realize religion religious sacred Saint secular seek sense Seven Storey Mountain silence Simone Weil simply society solitude soul speak spiritual Straus Suzuki talk theology things Thomas Merton thought tion tradition transcendent trees true truth understand whole wisdom woods words writing York