books by Thomas Merton     books:       New Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions Paperbook)45 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions, 2007 "To hope is to risk frustration. So make up your mind in advance to risk frustration." Thomas Merton's "New Seeds of Contemplation" is nothing short of life-changing: the complexity of his relationship with the interior life and titanic inward spirituality makes this the kind of book you will refer to for your entire life and may never understand it fully even then (I don't, and have read it twice now). For all that, you will still enjoy and admire the man. Just about ...             No Man Is an Island19 reviews Thomas Merton Shambhala, 2005 Inspired and Inspiring "No Man is an Island" is a spiritually moving set of essays--or meditations, rather--that address many issues but ultimately center on our relationship with God, with each other, and with ourselves. Having read only a little of Merton, I found this book somewhat more straightforward and prosaic compared to a later work of his, "The New Man", and he gets a tad dogmatic in spots (well, he is ...             Praying the Psalms (By Thomas Merton)10 reviews Thomas Merton Liturgical Press, 1956 Beyond the Liturgy of the Hours As one who has recently discovered the beauty of praying the Liturgy of the Hours, I have found Thomas Merton's little treatise on praying the Psalms to be both enriching and encouraging... encouraging me to look to the whole Psalm for the fullness of the meaning intended by each Psalmist (the LofH often uses only part of a psalm for the daily reading.) His listing of the various types of ...             Thoughts In Solitude25 reviews Thomas Merton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 Reflections in a Life of Solitude Perhaps meant more as his inner reminders of purpose than for the general public, Merton's "Thoughts in Solitude" show him to be reminding himself of his mission. As is implied in the title, this book discusses Merton's thoughts about the solitary life as he journeys though that life. Told in chapters that average 2-3 pages long, these passages are easy to digest for the average reader. ...             Spiritual Direction and Meditation4 reviews Thomas Merton Liturgical Press, 1986 Sound, sensible advice on the practice of prayer As one who recives spiritual direction, I am constantly on the lookout for books that make sense of a discipline that can all too easily be shrouded in a fog of verbiage. This is one of the very few books that fits the bill; it speaks to the reader directly, in simple, straightforward prose, and its content speaks directly to the spiritual needs of beginners in meditation like me. In ...             The Seven Storey Mountain96 reviews Thomas Merton Harvest Books, 1999 After "The Confessions," maybe the best-ever 'autobiography of Faith' Today I delivered a gift copy of this book to a widow, "Grace" whose husband had been my late father's closest childhood friend. A week earlier, Grace had asked: "Have you ever read Thomas Merton's SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN? I read it in 1953; and found it very moving. I'd love to find a copy and read it again." When I presented her with a new copy of this edition, I asked if I could read aloud ...             Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing4 reviews Thomas Merton New Seeds, 2007 Art and Contemplative Spirituality A poignant collection of excerpts of Thomas Merton's writing, spanning his entire monastic writing career: from his journals, personal letters, essays, and books. Thomas Merton, of course, is an internationally acclaimed and respected writer and contemplative. If you are interested in art (writing and poetry specifically) and contemplative spirituality, or simply interested in Thomas Merton, I ...             Contemplative Prayer18 reviews Thomas Merton Image, 1971 An excellent guide to contemplative prayer Thomas Merton was a monk, and in this book he explains ways that the non-monastic can live a life of prayer. In doing so he provides exercises for the contemplative novice (like me) and warns against bad habits of prayer that are easy to fall into. Here is his explanation of the purpose of monastic prayer: "To prepare the way so that God's action may develop this 'faculty for the supernatural,' ...             Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas14 reviews Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, ... Orbis Books, 2004 Loved it!! I love that this series, including "Bread and Wine:Readings for Lent and Easter," because it challeneges our complacent culture-dictated experience of Advent and Easter. This is not a feel-good book, it is a faith-building book. Be prepared to be shaken up and for God to meet you in a new way. I bought copies for my friends and family. Everyone loved it! The diversity of authors come ...             A Book of Hours19 reviews Thomas Merton Sorin Books, 2007 Short Meditations This is a book of short meditations designed to help the contemplative in his daily life of prayer. Modeled after the Liturgy of the Hours practiced by Catholic religious, it contains thoughts, poetry, impressions, and opinions, some unorthodox, taken from Thomas Merton's writings. The wonder and awe Thomas Merton feels for God and his creation are highlighted in many of the selections. So is ...             Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions)7 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970 Perfect for What it sets out to do As another reviewer notes, Merton's selections are not as comprehensive as Helen Waddell's, and his introduction does not provide nearly as detailed an account of the historical and literary context of the desert fathers' sayings. This is not Merton's purpose. He is trying to give us a sense of the spiritual essence of the fathers, and he does it brilliantly. Although he is not as elegant ...             Opening the Bible3 reviews Thomas Merton Liturgical Press, 2000 How to Read the Bible! This book gives an excellent frame of reference with which to read the Bible. Merton clearly addresses what the Bible is and what it is not, what to expect and what not to expect. This book prompts the reader to examine their own life and purposes; it calls on the reader to have a personal relationship with the Word of God. It cautions the reader who reads with a proscribed agenda and begs each ...             Zen and the Birds of Appetite.14 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968 A little book with lots of meaning. There is something refreshing about this little book. The title will seem a bit misleading - if expecting to find an account of Zen per se - minus the Christian based reflections of the author. However, Merton is known well enough - and these essays show him at his best. The dialogue between D.T. Suzuki and Thomas Merton is fruitful. Christianity and Buddhism have often been presented as ...             The Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition (PARABOLA Anthology Series)3 reviews Morning Light Press, 2006 The Christian Path of Transformation: Practicing Now This offering is one of eight in this excellent Parabola series which offers indepth introductions to the world's great religious traditions. The series takes its place alongside Paulist Press' now-famous Clasics in Western Spirituality series. It might be used alongside of the excellent one-volume survey The Study of Spirituality, Cheslyn Jones,et al, eds. (1986). The Inner Journey provides an ...             Mystics and Zen Masters4 reviews Thomas Merton Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999 Valuable for students of Asian religion and mysticism Although this book is a collection of essays over a range of subjects, and therefore not a continuous work, it is a very valuable work for understanding Chinese religion, Zen, and European mysticism (the main topics it addresses). The essays are classicaly Merton, although they are written in a more academic style -- and perhaps this is why the book has drawn criticism from the other reviewers. ...             The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New Directions Book)5 reviews Thomas Merton New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1975 Fascinating journal of Christian monk encountering the East This book is a must-read for fans of Merton, and for anyone interested in encounters between Western Christianity and Eastern religions (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism). Merton achieved incredible realizations and great insight into Buddhism despite the fact that he lived most of his life as a monk and hermit isolated at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, USA. At the end of his life, invited to ...             When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature6 reviews Thomas Merton Sorin Books, 2003 Become One With the Creative Mystery Kathleen Deignan, a professor of religious studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, really outdid herself here in compiling and editing some THREE HUNDRED works by Thomas Merton in this text. It's not a particularly long book, surprisingly, with only 190 some odd pages in it. With that being said, not much is left out here, either. It's by all means complete. There are chapters on the ...             Thomas Merton: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)6 reviews Thomas Merton Orbis Books, 2000 ORBIS SENDS US THIS VERY USEFUL SAMPLER BUT GET THE PRIMARY SOURCES We must ever be grateful to the long standing Catholic Publisher Orbis Books, an arm of the MAryknoll Missioner Society, for the excellent catalogue it has developed over the decades. What Orbis published in the eighties is without compare in the world of CAtholic printings, yet much is now lost and no longer available, tragically, as long gone as Pope Paul VI's crucial encyclical Populorum ...             The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)18 reviews Thomas Merton Shambhala, 2004 Like a fine wine ... Like a fine wine, this collection is best consumed slowly. As it is clearly stated in the foreward, this is not a faithful reproduction of Chuang Tzu but a collection of personal and spiritual interpretations of his work. Readers that expected otherwise might consider reading the description of the book before purchasing it. It would seem embarassing to write a negative review of a product ...             Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact4 reviews Ludwik Fleck University Of Chicago Press, 1981 Scientific facts: constructed, not discovered? If you thought scientific knowledge was clear, objective, and unbiased, but fortunately became enlightened by your readings of Kuhn, think again!! Rediscovered by Kuhn himself, Fleck exposes in a brief, very-well illustrated monogrpah, how facts -such as the apparently objective Wassermann reaction for syphilis- are constructed, not passively discovered. 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