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The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 20,642 ratings — published 1948
New Seeds of Contemplation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,156 ratings — published 1962
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,202 ratings — published 1955
Contemplative Prayer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,094 ratings — published 1969
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century (Shambhala Library)
by (shelved 11 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,289 ratings — published 1960
Bread in the Wilderness (New Directions Classic)
by (shelved 9 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.11 — 200 ratings — published 1953
The Sign of Jonas (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.26 — 728 ratings — published 1953
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.29 — 731 ratings — published 1966
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,407 ratings — published 1956
The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library)
by (shelved 6 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,772 ratings — published -350
The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.22 — 249 ratings — published
Praying the Psalms (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.12 — 562 ratings — published 1956
Raids on the Unspeakable (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.21 — 289 ratings — published 1966
The New Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.25 — 277 ratings — published 1961
Zen and the Birds of Appetite (New Directions Paperbook)
by (shelved 4 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,337 ratings — published 1968
Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Vision (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.65 — 20 ratings — published
Seeds of Destruction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.26 — 65 ratings — published 1961
Contemplation in a World of Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.11 — 139 ratings — published 1965
The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.22 — 493 ratings — published 1973
The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.32 — 766 ratings — published 1984
Life and Holiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.22 — 546 ratings — published 1962
A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals - A Spiritual Guide for Reflection, Gratitude, and Self-Care in the Pursuit of a Mindful Christian Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.33 — 487 ratings — published 2004
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.26 — 357 ratings — published 1999
Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years (4) (Journal of Thomas Merton)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.59 — 93 ratings — published 1996
A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.47 — 129 ratings — published 1996
Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer (The Journals of Thomas Merton)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.41 — 164 ratings — published 1996
Passion for Peace; Reflections on War and Nonviolence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.47 — 74 ratings — published 1995
Thomas Merton: Opening the Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.22 — 190 ratings — published 1986
Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.33 — 238 ratings — published 1995
Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.16 — 564 ratings — published 2001
Thomas Merton: Essential Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.13 — 175 ratings — published 2000
![Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1172470658l/179619._SY75_.jpg)
Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.45 — 151 ratings — published
The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.45 — 138 ratings — published 1998
A Book of Hours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.30 — 682 ratings — published 2007
The Ascent to Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 3.99 — 298 ratings — published 1951
Engaging the World with Merton: On Retreat in Tom's Hermitage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2005
Thomas Merton: A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.42 — 50 ratings — published 2008
The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.59 — 372 ratings — published
The Monastic Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.00 — 46 ratings — published 1977
Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 3.96 — 146 ratings — published
Merton: A Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 80 ratings — published 1980
The Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.03 — 58 ratings — published 1972
Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 2004
Signs of Peace: The Interfaith Letters of Thomas Merton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.67 — 12 ratings — published 2006
Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.21 — 19 ratings — published 2006
The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter 'Doctor Mellifluus' (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 3.94 — 48 ratings — published 1954
From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.14 — 22 ratings — published
On Thomas Merton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 3.60 — 129 ratings — published
We Are Already One: Thomas Merton's Message of Hope (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as thomas-merton)
avg rating 4.78 — 9 ratings — published 2015
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Ishi Means Man: [Essays] (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 30 ratings — published 1976
“If what God says is the truest thing about us, then it makes sense to follow him and accept our As-Is condition as the starting point. Thomas Merton said, 'The reason we never enter into the deepest reality of our relationship with God is that we so seldom acknowledge our utter nothingness before him.' If we confess the truth about ourselves, there's every reason to fear God will say, 'Yeah, that's right; and anotherthing...' and we're fairly sure there will be another thing. We are like people afraid to tell the doctor where we really hurt because we fear we may be sicker than we think.
We are sicker than we think. We're dying and, crazily, running from the healer because we're ashamed, because we hate ourselves for all we are and all we're not.”
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We are sicker than we think. We're dying and, crazily, running from the healer because we're ashamed, because we hate ourselves for all we are and all we're not.”
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“The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbitrarily making good pleasures seem guilty, but a basic inauthenticity, a kind of predisposition to bad faith in our understanding of ourselves and of the world. It implies a determined willfulness in trying to make things be other than they are in order that we may be able to make them subserve, at any moment, to our individual desire for pleasure or for power. But since things do not obey our arbitrary impulsions, and since we cannot make the world correspond to and confirm the image of it dictated by our needs and illusions, our willfulness is inseparable from error and from suffering. Hence, Buddhism says, deluded life itself is in a state of Dukkha, and every movement of desire tends to bear ultimate fruit in pain rather than lasting joy, in hate rather than love, in destruction rather than creation. (Let us note in passing that when technological skill seems in fact to give man almost absolute power in manipulating the world, this fact is no way reverses his original condition of brokenness and error but only makes it all the more obvious. We who live in the age of the H-bomb and the extermination camp have reason to reflect on this, though such reflection is a bit unpopular.)”
― Zen and the Birds of Appetite
― Zen and the Birds of Appetite
