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Monasticism Books

The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Cloister Walk
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
New Seeds of Contemplation
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
The Practice of the Presence of God
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
In This House of Brede
The Life of St. Anthony
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers by Benedicta WardThe Forgotten Desert Mothers by Laura SwanPoems for a Peaceful Soul by James-Patrick GeocarisWalking the Bible by Bruce FeilerDesert Fathers and Mothers by Christine Valters Paintner
Desert Spirituality
51 books — 16 voters
Seeking God by Esther de WaalThe Rule of Saint Benedict by Benedict of NursiaA Life-Giving Way by Esther de WaalRB 1980 by Benedict of NursiaThe Benedictine Handbook by Anthony Marett-Crosby
Benedictine Spirituality
24 books — 12 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Field by Lynne McTaggartThe Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden
Books for the Contemplative Life
465 books — 259 voters
My God and My All by Elizabeth GoudgeBrother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine PatersonSt. Francis of Assisi by Omer EnglebertFrancis of Assisi by André VauchezSurrounded by Love by Murray Bodo
Saint Francis of Assisi
107 books — 8 voters

Medieval Monasticism by C.H. LawrenceThe Forest Monks of Sri Lanka by Michael CarrithersGathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDanielPseudo-Macarius by George A. Maloney SJBuddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century ... by Anne M. Blackburn
Monasticism
18 books — 5 voters

Quotes Tagged “Monasticism”

Thich Nhat Hanh
“ To practice as monks is to train ourselves in mindfulness and awakening, to first free ourselves from suffering and then to help others do the same. ”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
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Hermann Hesse
“ ...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha ...more ”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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