The Silent LifeFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 25.05.2010 - 192 Seiten Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary, with a passionate defense of the contemplative's quest for God. The intense beauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makes The Silent Life a classic of its kind. |
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... reality which the concept signifies is a mys- tery . For in actual fact , no one on earth knows precisely what it means to " seek God " until he himself has set out to find Him . No man can tell another what this search means unless ...
... reality which the concept signifies is a mys- tery . For in actual fact , no one on earth knows precisely what it means to " seek God " until he himself has set out to find Him . No man can tell another what this search means unless ...
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... reality of God . It detaches him from that fixation upon his own will which makes him ig- nore and disobey the eternal Will in which alone reality is to be found . It gradually pulls down the edifice of illusory projects which he has ...
... reality of God . It detaches him from that fixation upon his own will which makes him ig- nore and disobey the eternal Will in which alone reality is to be found . It gradually pulls down the edifice of illusory projects which he has ...
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... reality , prayer and work , the monk finds that he now lives perfectly , and fully , and fruitfully in God . Yet God does not appear . The monk is not outwardly changed . He has no aureola . He is still a frail and limited human being ...
... reality , prayer and work , the monk finds that he now lives perfectly , and fully , and fruitfully in God . Yet God does not appear . The monk is not outwardly changed . He has no aureola . He is still a frail and limited human being ...
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... and seeks to purify his soul by living alone with the angels . Does he not thereby run the risk of losing all contact with reality and falling away from the life - giving union with his brothers in 7 THE MONASTIC PEACE.
... and seeks to purify his soul by living alone with the angels . Does he not thereby run the risk of losing all contact with reality and falling away from the life - giving union with his brothers in 7 THE MONASTIC PEACE.
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... reality , and when our false " self " disappears , when the darkness of our self - idolatry is dis- pelled , then the words of the Apostle are ful- filled in us : " Arise , thou that sleepest , and Christ will enlighten thee ...
... reality , and when our false " self " disappears , when the darkness of our self - idolatry is dis- pelled , then the words of the Apostle are ful- filled in us : " Arise , thou that sleepest , and Christ will enlighten thee ...
Inhalt
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In Veritate In Truth | 21 |
In Tabernaculo Altissimi In | 34 |
In Unitate In Unity | 47 |
The Benedictines 639 | 56 |
THE CENOBITIC LIFE | 59 |
The Cistercians | 95 |
THE HERMIT LIFE | 127 |
The Camaldolese | 144 |
Index | 177 |
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