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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,536 ratings — published 530
The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,303 ratings — published 1948
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,984 ratings — published 1996
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 15 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,579 ratings — published 1975
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 1,103 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 — 269 ratings — published 1960
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 3,300 ratings — published 2008
New Seeds of Contemplation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 9,427 ratings — published 1962
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 697 ratings — published 1984
The Practice of the Presence of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 61,258 ratings — published 2026
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 6,671 ratings — published 2017
In This House of Brede (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 7,035 ratings — published 1969
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,779 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 — 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 — 647 ratings — published 357
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 402,695 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 4.28 — 302 ratings — published 1950
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,486 ratings — published 1956
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5,530 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 4.33 — 1,507 ratings — published 1976
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 388 ratings — published 2007
Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 370 ratings — published 1996
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.30 — 857 ratings — published 1992
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,991 ratings — published 1953
The Sign of Jonas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 758 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 — 503 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 — 398 ratings — published 2018
Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons (Volume 229) (Cistercian Studies Series)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 214 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 4.36 — 2,530 ratings — published
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 300 ratings — published 2018
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,334 ratings — published 1955
Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of St. Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 148 ratings — published 2005
Silence: A Christian History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 379 ratings — published 2013
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages (Monastic Orders, 3)
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avg rating 3.62 — 13 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 — 371 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 — 47,316 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 3.98 — 96 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 — 391 ratings — published 2011
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,785 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)
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avg rating 4.12 — 670 ratings — published 2006
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,268 ratings — published 1981
School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship)
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avg rating 4.01 — 147 ratings — published 2005
New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 382 ratings — published 2008
The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 436 ratings — published 1988
To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.23 — 61 ratings — published 1993
Haven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.42 — 11,851 ratings — published 2022
“The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His task is to rid himself of ego so that consciousness, once its usual discordant mental content is dumped out of it through ritual prayer and meditation, may experience nonself as a living formlessness and emptiness into which God may come, if it please Him to come.”
― Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
― Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
“Neither monasticism nor materialism will do. To move forward we must stand whole and true.”
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
― Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
