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The Prayer of Thomas Merton
2008-12-25 23:03:00 1.fi aynatad?habün?WhereAre YouGoing? - The Qur'an 81:262.My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.I do not see the road ahead of me.I cannot know for certain where it will end.Nor do I really know myself,and the fact that I think I am following Your Willdoes not mean that I am actually doing so.But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.And I know that if I do this You will lead me by the right road,though I may know nothing about it.Therefore I will trust You always though I may seem to be lostand in the shadow of death. I will not fear,for You are ever with me,and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.- Prayer of Thomas Merton, Father Louis# Thomas Merton's connection with Sufis
Oneness in our true human context | Thomas Merton
2008-05-06 02:29:00 "Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and "one body," will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives. My successes are not my own. The way to them was prepared by others. The fruit of my labors is not my own: for I am preparing the way for the achievements of another. Nor are my failures my own. They may spring from the failure of another, but they are also compensated for by another's achievement. Therefore the meaning of my life is not to be looked for merely in the sum total of my achievements. It is seen only in the complete integration of my achievements and failures with the achievements and failures of my own generation, and society, and time.- Thomas Merton. No Man Is An Island (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955)The world has in fact no terms of its own. It dictates no terms to man. We and our world interpenetrate. ...
Merton?s Mountain Activity Book/Journal (faith exercises, Thomas Merton, Th
2007-11-22 03:11:00 Merton’s Mountain Activity Book/Journal (faith exercises, saint Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain, interfaith, weekend retreats, sacred parenting program, … formation, saint writer book, writer establishment (Paperback)By Mark Eley Buy new: $19.99 First tagged “childrens books” ...
Merton?s Mountain Main Lesson Book (Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain, T
2007-11-22 03:11:00 Merton’s Mountain Main Lesson Book (Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain, saint writer book, Trappist, monks, Christian faith, interfaith movement, sacred … Merton’s mountain, The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)By Mark Eley Buy new: $24.99 First tagged ...
Thomas Merton on the Perils of Overachieving
2007-06-27 21:59:00 This apt quotation from the great contemplative writer Thomas Merton comes to me by way of Bishop Gordon Scruton's editorial in the June issue of Pastoral Staff, the newsletter of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts: There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist, fighting for peace by nonviolent means, most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone, is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes their work for peace. It destroys their own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of their work because it kills the inner wisdom which makes their work fruitful.
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Thomas Merton -The biography-
2006-12-02 15:52:14 The biographyThomas Merton (EEUU, 1915 - 1968) Oh read the verses of the loaded scourges,And what is written in their terrible remarks;"The Blood runs down the walls of Cambridge town,As useless as the waters of the narrow river--While pub and alley gamble for His vestureAlthough my life is written on Christ's Body like a map,The nails have printed in those open handsMore than the abstract names of sins,More than the countries and the towns,The names of streeets, the numbers of the houses,The record of the days and nights,When I have murdered Him in every square and street.Lance and thorn, and scourge and nailHave more than made His flesh my chronicle.My journeys more than bite His bleeding feet.Christ, from my Cradle, I had known You everywhere,And even though I sinned, I walked in You and knew You were my world:You were my France and England,My seas and my America:You were my life and air, and yet I would not own YouOh, when I loved You, even while I hated You,Loving and yet refu...
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Thomas Merton
2006-12-02 15:52:14 Thomas Merton (EEUU, 1915 - 1968) PoemasThomas Merton -The useless tree-Thomas Merton -The biography-Thomas Merton -No Man is an Island- All men seek peace...-
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Thomas Merton -The useless tree-
2006-12-02 15:52:14 The useless tree Thomas Merton (EEUU, 1915 - 1968)Hui Tzu said to ChuangTzu I have a big tree,The kind they call a "stinktree."The trunk is so distorted,So full of knots,No one can get a straight plankOut of it. The branches are so crookedYou cannot cut them upIn any way that makes sense.There it stands beside the road.No carpenter will even look at it.Such is your teaching?Big and useless.Chuang Tzu replied:Have you ever watched the wildcatCrouching, watching his prey?This way it leaps, and that way,High and low, and at lastLands in the trap.But have you seen the yak?Great as a thundercloudHe stands in his might.Big? Sure,He can't catch mice!So for your big tree. No use?Then plant it in the wastelandIn emptiness. Walk idly around,Rest under its shadow;No axe or bill prepares its end.No one will ever cut it down.Useless? You should worry!El árbol inútilHui tzu le dijo a Chuang:"Tengo un árbol grande,de los que llaman árboles apestosos.El tronco está tán retorcido,tan lleno de nudos...
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Thomas Merton -No Man is an Island- All men seek peace...-
2006-12-02 15:52:14 No man is an island- All men seek peace...Thomas Merton (EEUU, 1915-1968) All men seek peace first of all with themselves. That is necessary, because we do not naturally find rest even in our own being.We have to learn to commune with ourselves before we can communicate with other men and with God. A man who is not at peace with himself necessarily projects his interior fighting into the society of those he lives with, and spreads a contagion of conflict all around him. Even when he tries to do good to others his efforts are hopeless, since he does not know how to do good to himself. In moments of wildest idealism he may take it into his head to make other people happy: and in doing so he will overwhelm them with his own unhappiness. He seeks to find himself somehow in the work of making others happy. Therefore he throws himself into the work. As a result he gets out of the work all that he put into it: his own confusion, his own disintegration, his own unhappiness. Ningún hombre e...
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