Thomas Merton

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• Happy 50th, dear Genesee, happy 50th to you...

  
  The Deacon's Bench — Authority: 581
  Heres something to be thankful for tomorrow: the Trappists at Genesee, celebrating their 50th year in upstate New York. (Those of us who loved Henri Nouwens "Genesee Diary" will find this brief video especially captivating.) Enjoy. Read this post »
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• Prayer and Survival

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 426
  For better or for worse--and I honestly dont know if its one or the other or both--passages like this one from The Seven Storey Mountain have had a lasting and formative effect on me: It was no longer possible to consider myself, abstractly, as being in a certain "state of life" which had certain technical ...
  1 week ago

• Quote for the Day

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 496
  I pray much to have a wise heart, and perhaps the rediscovery of Lady Julian of Norwich will help me. I took her book with me on a quiet walk among the cedars. She is a true theologian with greater clarity, depth and order than St. Theresa: she really elaborates, theologically, the content of her revelations. She ...
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• Sanctity Against Bitterness

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 426
  "It is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you pretend that someone else is keeping you from exercising your liberty. Who is this? It is you yourself." (Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation , 110.) One of the persistent ...
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• Youre Perfect, Now Change

  
  Fresh Living — Authority: 430
  "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them." - Thomas Merton Yes, yes, yes! Love. Totally agree. Though I wish instead of "twist" he had said "bend." And that first sentence ...
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• A Thomas Merton Mix-tape

  
  Ernest Hardy | Blood Beats — Authority: 107
  Some quotes from Thomas Merton ... “We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.” “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Balance Is Key To The Optimum Physique

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  As Purposeful Primitives we understand the need practice two distinct types of training: progressive resistance for the external musculature and cardiovascular training for the internal plumbing. In addition, training need be coordinated with a distinct eating regimen that amplifies instead of retards results. We know ...
  3 weeks ago

• Proving A Point Isn’t The Point

  
  View From a New Vrindaban Ridge — Authority: 122
  “Sometimes a university student or professor tries to study these transcendental literary works and attempts to put forth a critical analysis from the mundane view, with an end to receiving degrees like a Ph.D. Such realization is certainly different from that of Ramananda Raya. If one actually wants to take a Ph.D. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Promise of Paradox

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 496
  The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life By Parker J. Palmer, with an introduction by Henri Nouwen San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008 Review by Carl McColman Parker Palmer’s first book almost didn’t happen. As he explains in the new introduction to The Promise of Paradox ...
  3 weeks ago

• St. Charles Challenges

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 426
  As they do each year, the words of St. Charles Borromeo hit me hard in the Office of Readings this morning: One priest [or anyone] may wish to lead a good, holy life, as he knows he should. He may wish to be chaste and to reflect heavenly virtues in the way he lives. Yet he does not resolve to use suitable means, ...
  3 weeks ago

• why write like this?

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  I pause to ponder this ‘blogging.’ Sometimes I feel empty or plain lazy, but I push myself to write each day. My aim, simply, is to reflect on my lived experience and to make sense of the ordinary events of every day. But why publish them , you ask? To reveal how one person tries to live an ethically sound ...
  4 weeks ago

• why write?

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  Ever so often I pause to ponder the purpose of this blog. Occasionally I’m too empty to write, but as a practice I post each day. My aim, put simply, is to reflect on my lived experience and to make sense of the ordinary events of every day. But why publish them , you ask? I do so to show how one person tries to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Christ-Mysticism (Fray Luis de León)

  
  Perpetual Anticipation — Authority: 126
  I stumbled across this quote as I was doing research for a comparative Spanish literature essay ( in Spanish ) of Fray Luis de Leon (15th century Spanish Mystic) and Thomas Merton (20th century English Mystic). Fray Luis de León spoke of the theopathic life in terms of Christ-mysticism: “The very Spirit of Christ ...
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• Learning to Trust Process

  
  BlissChick — Authority: 129
  One of the greatest lessons I am learning right now is how much it matters that you do what you were meant to do. You say, " What!? Hasnt that been the point of Blisschick all along? " Well, yes, it has been, but that doesnt mean I am any better at understanding it than anyone else. I want to be clear here, ...
  4 weeks ago

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