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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written for an audience that does not include me, so the fact that it did not speak to me is not surprising. Nonetheless, I found much to think about in the discussion of what contemplative living and meditation is, and even more specifically, what it isn't. The last few chapters of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77829747">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book on contemplative prayer.  Really helped me to understand how to strip away preconceptions, dogma, and doctrine to come to God Alone.  <br/><br/>It was also a total mindf*ck and convinced me not to be a monk.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The climate in which monastic prayer flowers is that of the desert, where the comfort of man is absent, where the secure routines of man's city offer no support, and where prayer must be sustained by God in the purity of faith (p 27).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[More solid wisdom from Merton.  Definitely not a system for meditation, but wise reflections on what contemplation actually is and how we should approach it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One does not read Merton to acquire knowledge, but insight and (God willing) insight.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In general I think Merton did a good job with this book, but it seems at times that he wrote too much. This book could have easily been 3-5 chapters shorter than it is, and for that I don't feel like it was a &quot;great&quot; book. I liked it and I liked what he had to say, but he could have said i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44905147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Several years ago when I was in Segovia, Spain, I retreated into the majestic cathedral from the Castilian heat of early Fall.  I remember the tinted golden light illuminating the mammoth interior and observed people in repose, immersed in prayer.  I do not pray but the setting I was in felt like a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14556603">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little scattered, in typical Mertonian style.  Filled with some real ringing statements, though.  Continuing to wrestle with its full implications.]]></body>
    
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