Thomas Mertons Paradise Journey

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144113302X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Merton's Paradise Journey written by Thomas Merton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book which traces the development of the thoughts and writings of the 20th-century Cistercian monk, Thomas Merton, on the subject of contemplation.

Author : Monica Weis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157455
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Merton's Gethsemani written by Monica Weis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty-seven years, renowned and beloved monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery established in 1848 amid the hills and valleys near Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton's Gethsemani, dramatic black-and-white photographs by Harry L. Hinkle and artful text by Merton scholar Monica Weis converge in a unique experience for lovers of Merton. Hinkle was allowed unprecedented access to many areas inside the monastery and on its grounds that are generally restricted. His photographs invite the reader to experience the various knobs, lakes, woods, and hermitages Merton sought out for times of solitude and contemplation and for reading and writing. These unique images, each accompanied by a passage from Merton's writings, evoke personal reflection and a deeper understanding of how and why Merton came to recognize himself as a part of his Kentucky landscape. Woven throughout the book, Weis's text explores Merton's fascination with nature not only at Gethsemani, but during his early childhood, throughout his spiritual conversion to Roman Catholicism, and while a member of the Trappist community. She examines how Merton's lifelong interaction with nature subtly revealed and informed his profound spiritual experiences and his writing about contemplation. Thomas Merton's Gethsemani replicates Merton's path on his solitary hikes in the woods and conveys the wonder of the landscapes that inspired him.

Author : Linhxuan Vu
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524549711
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paradise Man written by Linhxuan Vu and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Adam and Eve left Eden, humanity has endured through long millennia of hardships and sufferings, especially death. But the hearts of their children and great-grandchildren have never given up the hope that, someday, they could return to the place of happiness that once had been their inheritance. It is a legitimate and dignified dream. In fact, since the day Adam and Eve left, paradise has remained on earth, waiting for every single human child to return. Mertons paradise, in the last analysis, is on earth, but it is not a spacious place. It is rather an attitude of heart, a state of consciousness, in a spiritual journey. The recovery of paradise occurs when the ego in us becomes empty like a desert. The more the noisy ego diminishes, the more the paradise appears in all its beauty. In fact, this paradise is the face of God, not just an imaginary picture but the true God Himself. The more the face of our ego fades out, the more the face of God shines in his glory, might, and goodness. The desert path is more a journey within our consciousness than through geographical space and time. That is why it belongs to all people and is not just reserved for desert hermits. According to Thomas Merton, you need not be a bishop, a priest, a monk, a nun, a religious person, or a hermit to enter the spiritual journey. You may be a lay person, a normal churchgoer very busy with your daily duties, but you certainly could be a real paradise man.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780281073665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title tells the story of Thomas Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly.

Author : Hugh Turley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548077389
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton written by Hugh Turley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. Merton's many biographers and the American press now say unanimously that he died from accidental electrocution. From a careful examination of the official record, including crime scene photographs that the authors have found that the investigating police in Thailand never saw, and from reading the letters of witnesses, they have discovered that the accidental electrocution conclusion is totally false. The widely repeated story that Merton had taken a shower and was therefore wet when he touched a lethal faulty fan was made up several years after the event and is completely contradicted by the evidence. Hugh Turley and David Martin identify four individuals as the primary promoters of the false accidental electrocution narrative. Another person, they show, should have been treated as a murder suspect. The most likely suspect in plotting Merton's murder, a man who was a much stronger force for peace than most people realize, they identify as the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States government. Thomas Merton was the most important Roman Catholic spiritual and anti-warfare-state writer of the 20th century. To date, he has been the subject of 28 biographies and numerous other books. Remarkably, up to now no one has looked critically at the mysterious circumstances surrounding his sudden death in Thailand. From its publication date in the 50th anniversary of his death, into the foreseeable future, this carefully researched work will be the definitive, authoritative book on how Thomas Merton died.

Author : Jonathan Montaldo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781594710964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing That Paradise Begins Now written by Jonathan Montaldo and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton gently leads participants on a journey toward spiritual transformation and a more contemplative and peace-filled life. Each eight-session booklet provides an introduction to Merton and contemplative living through prayers, readings from Merton and other spiritual masters, and questions for small group dialogue. This eighth and final book of the Bridges series helps participants learn to see that we live in paradise here and now whenever we choose to love and embrace our inexhaustible communion with God and all creation. Opening the ever-present gates to paradise frees us to live at peace and entices those around us to do the same.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570755019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Paradise written by Thomas Merton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous monk evokes the Shaker spirit and its message of simplicity and peace of heart in writings and photographs together for the first time.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590302532
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Man is an Island written by Thomas Merton and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune

Author : Zhuangzi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201032
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of Chuang-Tzŭ written by Zhuangzi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1965 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200998
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Seeds of Contemplation written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1972 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On spiritual rebirth through encounter with God in an expanded version, by the author of Seven Storey Mountain.