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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $8.45
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Manufacturer: Harvest Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Harvest Books
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Edition: Anv
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Dewey Decimal Number: 271.12502
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Publication Date: 1999-10-04
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton's autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: "I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. And this will be due not to me but to the One who lives and speaks in both." --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.82
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer::John Donne::Meister Eckhart::T.S. Eliot::Gerard Manley Hopkins::C. S. Lewis::Thomas Merton::Archbishop Romero::Henri J.M. Nouwen::Philip Yancey
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2004-09-30
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Reading Level: 330
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $9.74
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Manufacturer: Sorin Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Sorin Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242.2
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Publication Date: 2007-03
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Reading Level: 223
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Description: 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 "praying the hours". Editor Kathleen Deignan mined Merton's voluminous writings, arranging prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for each of the days of the week. A Book of Hours allows for a slice of monastic contemplation in the midst of hectic modern life, with psalms, prayers, readings, and reflections.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.11
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Manufacturer: New Directions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: New Directions
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.34
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Publication Date: 2007-11-27
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: "It can become almost a magic word," Thomas Merton says of contemplation; "or if not magic, then inspirational, which is almost as bad." With these words, Merton takes us through the reality of contemplation, which is, the author says, "life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder." Above all, contemplation is "awareness of the reality" of the Source, "with a certitude that goes beyond reason and beyond simple faith." As these definitions should suggest, in this 20th-century classic on the contemplative life, as in the best of Merton's work, this Trappist monk wonderfully combines a disciplined and deeply learned intellect with the lyrical passion of the poet. It is this rare combination that makes this book not only informative but also moving. Covering a diverse range of subjects ("Faith," "The Night of the Senses," "Renunciation"), it moves the reader through certain traditional "phases" of contemplation, and gives an idea of what to expect in this spiritual process (including despair and darkness). The book describes, but it also enacts. In its own prose it invites the reader to "cast our awful solemnity to the winds and join in the general dance." --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.28
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Manufacturer: Shambhala
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Shambhala
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.482
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Publication Date: 2005-06-14
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Here, in one of his most popular of his more than thirty books, Thomas Merton provides further meditations on the spiritual life in sixteen thoughtful essays, beginning with his classic treatise "Love Can Be Kept Only by Being Given Away." This sequel to Seeds of Contemplation provides fresh insight into Merton's favorite topics of silence and solitude, while also underscoring the importance of community and the deep connectedness to others that is the inevitable basis of the spiritual life—whether one lives in solitude or in the midst of a crowd.
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $5.18
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Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1986-06
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: 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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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $7.27
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 1999-11-29
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: The renowned Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote Thoughts in Solitude in 1953 and 1954, when his superiors allowed him extended periods of seclusion and meditation. This elegant gift book, with clean, spare type and graphics, does justice to a 20th-classic (this is its 25th printing). What has made this book such an enduring and popular work is that it recognizes how important solitude is to our morality, integrity, and ability to love. One does not have to be a monk to find solitude, notes Merton; solitude can be found in the act of contemplation and silent reflection in everyday life. Also, this is not a pious book that assumes that a relationship with the divine can be obtained only by denying our humanity and striving for saintliness. Instead, Merton asserts that connection with God can most easily be made through "respect for temperament, character, and emotion and for everything that makes us human." --Gail Hudson
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Price: $10.95
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Sale: $5.73
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Manufacturer: Image
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Image
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.34
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Publication Date: 1971-02-05
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: This little gem of a book, newly issued with a foreword from the great Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (who knew Merton in the 1960s) beautifully distills Merton's own reading and long experience with contemplation. Written close to the end of Merton's life, this book is not so much a "how to" guide as it is a kind of contemplation of contemplation. Immersed in the "negative theology" of St. John of the Cross and others--and influenced by his deep reading in Zen--Merton here stresses that in meditation "we should not look for a 'method' or 'system,' but cultivate an 'attitude,' an 'outlook': faith, openness, attention, reverence, expectation, supplication, trust, joy." God is found in the desert of surrender: this means giving up any expectation for a particular message and "waiting on the Word of God in silence," knowing that any answer will be "his silence itself suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God." --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $4.95
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Sale: $1.70
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Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1956-06
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Reading Level: 48
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Description: 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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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $4.82
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Merton
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.42
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Publication Date: 1999-11-29
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: 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-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."
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