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  The Seven Storey Mountain

  by Thomas Merton

  This publication is the complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's autobiography. It tells of a life spent in devotion, and offers insights into the religious experience.
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  New Seeds of Contemplation (Shambhala Library)

  by Thomas Merton

  A much-enlarged and revised version of Seeds of Contemplation--one of the late Father Merton's most widely-read and best-loved works--New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man and to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our spiritual lives.
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  Life and Holiness

  by Thomas Merton

  A classic work on incorporating spirituality into everyday life is based on the author's experiences as a world-wise Trappist monk and his deep involvement in the issues of his day. Reissue.
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  Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing

  by Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti

  When Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery in December 1941, he turned his back on secular life—including a very promising literary career. He sent his journals, a novel-in-progess, and copies of all his poems to his mentor, Columbia professor Mark Van Doren, for safe keeping, fully expecting to write little, if anything, ever again.  It was a relatively short-lived resolution, for Merton almost immediately... (more)
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  Advent and Christmas With Thomas Merton (Redemptorist Pastoral Publication)

  by Thomas Merton

  "It is important to remember the deep... seriousness of Advent, when the mendacious celebrations of our marketing culture so easily harmonize with our tendency to regard Christmas, consciously or otherwise, as a return to our own innocence and our own infancy...." So wrote Thomas Merton, the mystical Trappist who was probably the most famous American monk of the 20th century. Here, some of Merton's writings on... (more)
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  Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

  by William Poundstone

  In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein’s. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible,... (more)
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  The Sign of Jonas, the Journals of Thomas Merton

  by Thomas Merton

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  Mornings With Thomas Merton: Readings and Reflections

  by Thomas Merton

  Here is a provocative collection of daily readings and reflections drawn from the writings of worldly-man-turned-monk, Thomas Merton, designed to flood our dark moods with light, changing the way we see everything.
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  Discovering the Hidden Ground of Love (Bridges to Contemplative Living With Thomas Merton Series)

  by Thomas Merton

  Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton gently leads participants on a journey toward spiritual transformation and a more contemplative and peace-filled life. Each eight-session booklet offers an introduction to Merton and contemplative living through prayers, readings from Merton and other spiritual masters, and questions for small group dialogue. The fourth book, Discovering the... (more)
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  Living Your Deepest Desires (Bridges to Contemplative Living With Thomas Merton Series)

  by Thomas Merton

  Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton gently leads participants on a journey toward spiritual transformation and a more contemplative and peace-filled life. Each eight-session booklet offers an introduction to Merton and contemplative living through prayers, readings from Merton and other spiritual masters, and questions for small group dialogue. Book Three: Living Your Deepest... (more)
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  Journeys into Emptiness: Dogen, Merton, Jung, and the Quest for Transformation (Jung and Spirituality Series)

  by Robert Jingen Gunn

  Here are the life journeys of three great seekers who, though separated by time and culture, had much in common. Dogen was the 13th-century Japanese founder of a School of Zen Buddhism, the Soto School, and a teacher of zazen, wordless meditation. Jung was a 20th-century Swiss psychiatrist who broke with psychoanalysis and saw the mind as having both male and female elements. Merton was a 20th-century American... (more)
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  The Seven Storey Mountain

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  Contemplative Prayer

  by Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Merton

  A guide to modern prayer draws on such influences as John of the Cross and Eastern desert monasticism and serves as an argument against drug-induced inner peace. Reissue. NYT.
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  Thoughts in Solitude

  by Thomas Merton

  Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a... (more)