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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,663 ratings — published 530
The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,585 ratings — published 1948
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,007 ratings — published 1996
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 16 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,643 ratings — published 1975
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,129 ratings — published 600
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 272 ratings — published 1960
New Seeds of Contemplation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,519 ratings — published 1962
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 725 ratings — published 1984
The Practice of the Presence of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 63,212 ratings — published 1692
In This House of Brede (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,154 ratings — published 1969
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,846 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 3.90 — 181 ratings — published 1984
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,310 ratings — published 2008
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 655 ratings — published 357
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,140 ratings — published 1980
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,747 ratings — published 2017
John Cassian: Conferences (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 313 ratings — published 1950
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,516 ratings — published 1956
The Sign of Jonas (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 779 ratings — published 1953
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,569 ratings — published 1993
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.42 — 78 ratings — published 2004
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,535 ratings — published 1976
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 2015
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 392 ratings — published 2007
Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 372 ratings — published 1996
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 866 ratings — published 1992
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,044 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 — 507 ratings — published 2006
A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.44 — 404 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 — 223 ratings — published 2009
Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,702 ratings — published
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 304 ratings — published 2018
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,390 ratings — published 1955
Silence: A Christian History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 384 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 — 375 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 3.80 — 47,610 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 4.00 — 100 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)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,820 ratings — published 2001
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 248 ratings — published 2006
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 680 ratings — published 2006
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,282 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 3.73 — 381 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 Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 55 ratings — published
Laurus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 12,999 ratings — published 2012
The Life of Saint Macrina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.11 — 447 ratings — published 380
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.67 — 70,628 ratings — published 2021
“[The Lord] is exceedingly meek and lowly, and when the soul sees Him she is all transformed into love for God and her neighbour...becomes meek and lowly herself. But if a man lose grace, he will weep like Adam cast out of paradise.”
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
“Monasticism provides a valid means of avoiding the sensual attachments that can be a very real distraction to meditation. Monks are acutely aware that family ties are an intensely emotional attachment—and therefore distraction—and intentionally limit, if not cut off completely, their contacts with their families.”
― The Zen Monastic Experience
― The Zen Monastic Experience