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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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No Man Is an Island
by Thomas Merton
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 fresh insight into Merton's favorite topics of silence and solitude, while also underscoring the importance of community and... (more)
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own
An American Pilgrimage
by Paul Elie
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power... (more)
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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)
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New Seeds of Contemplation
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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The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New Directions Book)
by Thomas Merton
This volume, the journal Merton kept on the journey to Asia where his life ended, also is a culmination of his long spiritual journey as a writer. "His ecumenism was total," the editors remind us, "and we find him ranging from Tantric Buddhism to Zen, and from Islam and Sufism to Vedanta." The book, however, is not dryly academic; rather, as the foreword suggests, "Merton's pilgrimage to Asia was an effort to... (more)
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Thomas Merton Reader
by Thomas Merton
A profile of Merton as a thinker, writer, poet, peacemaker, and social critic contains significant selections from his famous and lesser-known works and considers such topics as war, love, Eastern spirituality, monastic life, and solitude. Reissue.
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When the Heart Waits
Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
by Sue Monk Kidd
stood at the window watching the cocoon, which hung in the winter air like an upside–down question mark. That was the moment... I understood. Really understood. Crisis, change, all the myriad upheavals that blister the spirit and leave us groping– they aren't voices simply of pain but also of creativity. And if we would only listen, we might hear such times beckoning us to a season of waiting, to the place of... (more)
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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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The Inner Experience
Notes on Contemplation
by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton's Fullest Exploration of Contemplation -- Western and Eastern
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Merton A Biography
by Monica Furlong
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The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals
by Thomas Merton
In this diary-like memoir, composed of his most poignant and insightful journal entries, The Intimate Merton lays bare the steep ways of Thomas Merton's spiritual path. Culled from the seven volumes of his personal journals, this twenty nine year chronicle deepens and extends the story Thomas Merton recounted and made famous in The Seven Storey Mountain. This book is the spiritual autobiography of our... (more)
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The New Man
by Thomas Merton
The New Man shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of our true selves? By way of an answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourselves by our depence on outward identity and success, while our real need is for a concern with the image of God in ourselves. At a time of retrieval of our religious... (more)
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A Book of Hours
by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, some of his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been arranged into A Book of Hours , a rich resource for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly popular ancient monastic practice of "praying the hours". Editor Kathleen Deignan mined... (more)
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Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
by Thomas Merton
A series of monastic notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections considers such issues as the ""death of God,"" politics, modern life and values, and racial strife. Reissue.
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Merton's Palace of Nowhere
by James Finley
"This one door is the door of the Palace of Nowhere. It is the door of God. It is our very self, our true self called by God to perfect union with himself. And it is through this door we secretly enter in responding to the saving call to 'Come with me to the Palace of Nowhere where all the many things are one.'"
Thoughts in Solitude Reflections on the Spiritual Life and the Love of SolitudeThomas Merton
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Thoughts in Solitude Reflections on the Spiritual Life and the Love of Solitude
by Thomas Merton
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Merton: An Enneagram Profile
by Suzanne Zuercher
Zuercher outlines and describes the themes and dynamics of the "4" space in the enneagram scheme. She then demonstrates how they are consistent not only with Thomas Merton's actions but also his articulation of his spritual journey.
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The Ascent to Truth
by Thomas Merton
Merton defines Christian mysticism, especially as expressed by the Spanish Carmelite St. John of the Cross, and he offers the contemplative experience as an answer to the irreligion and barbarism of our times. “For those...curious about mysticism...this is an excellent book” (Catholic World).
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Thomas Merton My Brother
by M.Basil Pennington
This intriguing expose not only traces Merton's remarkable journey through life, but it also explores the various deposits of his vast literary heritage. Pennington one of the leading spiritual writers of our times was a close friend of Merton. As a fellow Cistercian monk for many years he can understand as few others can the life-style and concerns of Thomas Merton. Chapters deal with Merton's quest for... (more)

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