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Thomas Merton
Author profile
born
January 31, 1915
in Prades, France
died
December 10, 1968
gender
male
genre
influences
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The Seven Storey Mountain
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1948
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27 editions
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New Seeds of Contemplation
4.28 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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1972
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No Man Is an Island
4.17 avg rating — 848 ratings
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1955
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14 editions
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Thoughts In Solitude
4.15 avg rating — 523 ratings
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published
1956
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12 editions
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The Way of Chuang Tzu
4.28 avg rating — 578 ratings
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1969
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8 editions
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The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
4.11 avg rating — 417 ratings
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1961
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9 editions
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Contemplative Prayer. Thomas Merton
4.10 avg rating — 370 ratings
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1969
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7 editions
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Zen and the Birds of Appetite
4.01 avg rating — 236 ratings
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1968
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Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
by Thomas Merton, Thomas Moore 4.19 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings
by Thomas Merton, Jonathan Montaldo 4.21 avg rating — 146 ratings
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2001
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
“MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thomas Merton
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― Thomas Merton
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