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No Man Is an Island
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No Man Is an Island (1978) (edit title/settings)

by Thomas Merton (Author) (edit contributors)

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Here, in one of his most popular of his more than thirty books, Thomas Merton provides further meditations on the spiritual life in sixteen thoughtful essays, beginning with his classic treatise "Love Can Be Kept Only by Being Given Away." This sequel to Seeds of Contemplation provides... read more

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A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make happy.

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Author's Note
Prologue: No Man is an Island
1. Love can be kept only by being given away
2. Sentences on hope
3. Conscience, freedom, and prayer
4. Pure intention
5. The Word of the Cross
6. Asceticism and sacrifice
7. Being and doing
8 Vocation
9. The measure of charity
10. Sincerity
11. Mercy
12. Recollection
13. "My soul remembered God"
14. The wind blows where it pleases
15. The inward solitude
16. Silence

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  1. Thomas Merton (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
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Publication Date: 1978
ISBN: 015665962X
Page Count: 288

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