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Precious Thoughts

Daily Readings from Thomas Merton [Paperback]

by Thomas Merton

    • Author

      Thomas Merton

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Darton Longman & Todd

    • Published

      September 2011

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    Product Description

    Thomas Merton wrote to people of all faiths and none; he wrote to people who were searching, and those who were firmly established in religious orders; he wrote to students, peace activists and 'ordinary' people who had read about him and were curious. Some are letters of spiritual direction, a sharing of spiritual insights and social concerns, some more personal. In this carefully selected collection, Merton scholar, Fiona Gardner, has focused on extracts that seem to speak to all who are searching. They have been chosen because they offer an opening into something other - to provide a way into both silence and contemplative prayer.

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    • Author

      Thomas Merton

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Darton Longman & Todd

    • Published

      September 2011

    • Weight

      159g

    • Page Count

      176

    • Dimensions

      11.7 x 18.3 x 1.6 cm

    • ISBN

      9780232528831

    • ISBN-10

      0232528837

    • Eden Code

      3978933

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    • Author/Creator: Thomas Merton

    • ISBN: 9780232528831

    • Publisher: Darton Longman & Todd

    • Release Date: September 2011

    • Weight: 159g

    • Dimensions: 11.7 x 18.3 x 1.6 cm

    • Eden Code: 3978933

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    12 years ago

    Precious Thoughts

    Many will be familiar with the writings of Thomas Merton, I am not, so came to this almanac of a year’s daily cycle of readings with a fresh pair of eyes.
    Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk based in the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. He wrote about his childhood, adolescence and early adulthood and on the publication of this, many people wrote to him. A conservative estimate is that he wrote over 10,000 letters to over 2,000 correspondents: the principal subject being spiritual guidance.
    The route to finding and exploring true inner self for Merton is silence and contemplation – here is an acceptance that we cannot ‘know’ and must just faithfully ‘accept’, surrendering to something more than self.
    These daily readings offer ‘an opening into something other’ – perhaps what Boris Pasternak meant when he wrote:- ‘Thomas Merton…whose precious thought and dear bottomless letters enrich me and make me happy.’ (Back cover)
    This anthology will stimulate its readers to deeper silence and contemplation and, I suspect, open the eyes of many to the riches of Merton’s writing. No-one need be put off by thinking that his writings are beyond them. These excerpts are thoroughly accessible. I look forward to using them myself and thoroughly recommend them.

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