The Inner Experience: Notes on ContemplationHarper Collins, 2004 M05 25 - 192 páginas Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life. Never before published except as a series of articles (one per chapter) in an academic journal, this book on contemplation was revised by Merton shortly before his untimely death. The material bridges Merton's early work on Catholic monasticism, mysticism, and contemplation with his later writing on Eastern, especially Buddhist, traditions of meditation and spirituality. This book thus provides a comprehensive understanding of contemplation that draws on the best of Western and Eastern traditions. Merton was still tinkering with this book when he died; it was the book he struggled with most during his career as a writer. But now the Merton Legacy Trust and experts have determined that the book makes such a valuable contribution as his major comprehensive presentation of contemplation that they have allowed its publication.
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... faith. Our awareness of our inner self can at least theoretically be the fruit of a purely natural and psychological purification.Our awareness of God is a supernatural participation in the light by which He reveals Himself interiorly ...
... faith.”Faith is indeed the “dark night”in which we meet God, according to St. John of the Cross.“This dark and loving knowledge, which is faith, serves as a means of divine union in this life, even as in the next life the light of glory ...
... faith which is given to the soul is thick darkness,for it overwhelms that which is great and does away with that which is little,even as the light of the sun overwhelms all other lights whatsoever, so that when it shines and disables ...
... faith. Since God is unapproachable and hidden, . . . however much it seem to thee that thou findest and feelest and understandest Him,thou must ever hold Him as hidden and serve him after a hidden manner,as one that is hidden.(Spiritual ...
... faith in which a false belief was superadded to the “simple” and unspoiled view of truth, so that direct knowledge became distorted by a false affirmation and negation. It is curious to realize that those who most deride religious faith ...
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SEVEN Five Texts on Contemplative Prayer | 80 |
EIGHT The Paradox of the Illuminative Way | 89 |
The Teaching of St John of the Cross | 95 |
TEN Some Dangers | 101 |
FOURTEEN Problems of the Contemplative Life | 123 |
APPENDIX A References to The Inner Experience | 155 |
Index | 173 |
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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton,William H. Shannon Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |