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In study we can be content with an idea or a concept that is true. We can be content to know about truth. Meditation is for those who are not satisfied with a merely objective and conceptual knowledge about life, about God - about ultimate realities. They want to enter into an intimate contact with truth itself, with God. They want to experience the deepest realities of life by living them. Meditation is the means to that end.
Thomas Merton, from the book, “Spiritual Direction and Meditation,” chapter entitled, “What is Meditation.”
Thomas Merton, from the book, “Spiritual Direction and Meditation,” chapter entitled, “What is Meditation.”
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BlueMaxx
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Merton helped me so much in my return to the Church…
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Me too, although I never left the Church. Thomas Merton helped me to transition from the way I lived our Faith as a child and a young adult to what I now consider to be a richer and more mature understanding. Reading Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain back when I was 31, and many of his other books since then, certainly helped to shape my current attitude as a Catholic.
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BlueMaxx
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That mirrors my experience…in fact I have been thinking the last few days about digging out my old copy of Seven Story Mountain and reading it again.
I live right next to Kentucky on the Indian side, and St. Meinrad Archabbey is upon the road and they have most his books…thats where I picked it up…and one of the Sisters asked me if I ever thought about visiting the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane near Bardstown, Kentucky.
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FYI, if you’ve read “Seeds of Contemplation,” and enjoyed it, get a copy of “The Inner Experience,” by Thomas Merton.
The Inner Experience was never released while Thomas Merton was alive. He had written four drafts on it and was having the last draft reviewed when he died. So, the editor having the final draft review finished, published it. Merton had a deeper understanding on Contemplative Prayer and this book gives the reader a better understanding about Contemplative Prayer and Contemplation.
The Inner Experience was never released while Thomas Merton was alive. He had written four drafts on it and was having the last draft reviewed when he died. So, the editor having the final draft review finished, published it. Merton had a deeper understanding on Contemplative Prayer and this book gives the reader a better understanding about Contemplative Prayer and Contemplation.
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He also has influenced me. Focused so much more on the interior life now after forty or so years focused on church and studying Scripture not that that is bad. I tend to meditate on Scripture not just read and study it. I also enjoy Henri Nowen as well.
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BlueMaxx
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I do the same…some days I may get through maybe a couple chapters and others I may only get through a page…I often find myself in the footnotes down an unending rabbit hole or meditating on one paragraph or even sentence.
I am worse while reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church…I take my time because there is so much “fat to chew on”.
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Some of us are truly blessed with these treasures “within a stone’s throw” of home.
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