Merton, Thomas - Thoughts In Solitude (FSG, 2011)
epu| 259.49 KB | English | Author :Thomas Merton | B00FOANDMI | 2011 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Book Description :

Thoughtfuand eloquent, as timely (otimeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as welas the necessity foquiet reflection in an age when slittle is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men whknow ninteriosolitude it can nlongebe held togetheby love: and consequently it is held togetheby a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedowhich are theidue, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate."

Thoughts in Solitude stands alongsideThe Seven Storey Mountain as one of Merton's most uring and populaworks. Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spirituathinkeof the twentiethcentury. His diaries, sociacommentary, and spirituawritings continue tbe widely read aftehis untimely death in 1968.

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