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Dancing in the Water of Life

By Thomas Merton

Book information

Publisher
HarperOne
Year
1998
ISBN
006065483X, 9780060654832, 9780061457326
LCC
BX4705.M542 A3 1995b vol. 5
Open Library ID
OL1008270M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1087562 bytes)
Series
Journals of Thomas Merton
Pages
384\394
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

The sixties were a time of restlessness, inner turmoil, and exuberance for Merton during which he closely followed the careening development of political and social activism – Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Selma, the Catholic Worker Movement, the Vietnam war, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Volume 5 chronicles the approach of Merton’s fiftieth birthday and marks his move to Mount Olivet, his hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where he was finally able to fully embrace the joys and challenges of solitary life: ‘In the hermitage, one must pray of go to seed. The pretense of prayer will not suffice. Just sitting will not suffice . . . Solitude puts you with your back to the wall (or your face to it!), and this is good’ (13 October, 1964).

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