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    <body><![CDATA[This book was life changing in many ways. Sardonic treatment of 60's current events coupled with brilliant spiritual insights. Written before he went all new-agey.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My God, what an amazing collection of writings!  I absolutely love this book and thought that several of the entries by Merton convened wisdom.  What's also great about it, too, is that because it's written in diary format, you can pick it up whenever you want for some enlightening reading.    ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read Thomas Merton, I want to live a life of contemplation.<br/><br/>These short reflections by a Catholic monk are often making a case for social equality and responsibility as the obvious conclusion of Christian faith.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[sadly, pretty much every thought he had about racism, the arms race, the culpability of everyday americans, and the confusion between faith and inaction, holds true today.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the shadow of the cold war and the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, the underlying themes are very much relevant.  This book is timeless.]]></body>
    
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