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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,599 ratings — published 530
The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,416 ratings — published 1948
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,995 ratings — published 1996
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 15 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,617 ratings — published 1975
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,117 ratings — published 600
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 271 ratings — published 1960
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,304 ratings — published 2008
New Seeds of Contemplation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 9,479 ratings — published 1962
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 717 ratings — published 1984
The Practice of the Presence of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 62,368 ratings — published 1692
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,704 ratings — published 2017
In This House of Brede (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,097 ratings — published 1969
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,815 ratings — published 357
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 180 ratings — published 1984
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 650 ratings — published 357
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 405,654 ratings — published 1980
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 2015
John Cassian: Conferences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 305 ratings — published 1950
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,500 ratings — published 1956
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5,552 ratings — published 1993
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 78 ratings — published 2004
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,529 ratings — published 1976
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 392 ratings — published 2007
Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 372 ratings — published 1996
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 863 ratings — published 1992
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,020 ratings — published 1953
The Sign of Jonas (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 765 ratings — published 1953
An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 505 ratings — published 2006
A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.45 — 402 ratings — published 2018
Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons (Volume 229) (Cistercian Studies Series)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 222 ratings — published 2009
The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 56 ratings — published
Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,626 ratings — published
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 302 ratings — published 2018
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,367 ratings — published 1955
Silence: A Christian History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 381 ratings — published 2013
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages (Monastic Orders, 3)
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avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 2011
The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 374 ratings — published 2011
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,470 ratings — published 1995
The Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 99 ratings — published 1980
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 392 ratings — published 2011
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,805 ratings — published 2001
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
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avg rating 3.86 — 247 ratings — published 2006
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 679 ratings — published 2006
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,273 ratings — published 1981
School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 146 ratings — published 2005
New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 382 ratings — published 2008
To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 63 ratings — published 1993
The Life of Saint Macrina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 444 ratings — published 380
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.67 — 70,067 ratings — published 2021
St. Benedict's Rule: An Inclusive Translation and Daily Commentary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.76 — 37 ratings — published
“What avails monastic aspirations when, as Mark had said, religious geniuses were born and not made? Could not renouncing the world be a form of self-indulgence? Was not monasticism, in the end, as much an act of cowardice as courage?”
― The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
― The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
“Seclusion Won’t Do (The Sonnet)
Each of you must turn into a sufi saint,
Each of you must turn into a latin lover.
Each of you must turn into a shaolin monk,
Each of you must turn into a bengal tiger.
It won't do to seclude yourself in a monastery,
It won't do to seclude yourself behind a desk.
The monk must come down to the streets of life,
The scholar must till the soil with their sweat.
Service of humanity is the fulfillment of divinity,
Service of humanity is the right use of intellect.
Occasional seclusion is good, to charge up the mind,
But life-long seclusion from society is sheer waste.
Enlightenment that doesn't eliminate separation
is no enlightenment.
Intelligence that doesn't elevate the collective
is no intelligence.”
― Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
Each of you must turn into a sufi saint,
Each of you must turn into a latin lover.
Each of you must turn into a shaolin monk,
Each of you must turn into a bengal tiger.
It won't do to seclude yourself in a monastery,
It won't do to seclude yourself behind a desk.
The monk must come down to the streets of life,
The scholar must till the soil with their sweat.
Service of humanity is the fulfillment of divinity,
Service of humanity is the right use of intellect.
Occasional seclusion is good, to charge up the mind,
But life-long seclusion from society is sheer waste.
Enlightenment that doesn't eliminate separation
is no enlightenment.
Intelligence that doesn't elevate the collective
is no intelligence.”
― Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans