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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... seems evident that what we have to share seems to be not so much one another's heaven as one another's hell. For the desire which we cherish, in the secrecy of our soul, as our “heaven” sometimes1 turns, when offered as a solution to ...
... seems appropriate to him and that he likes to see in himself.And the fact that his busy narcissism is turned within and feeds upon itself in stillness and secret love will make him believe that his experience of himself is an experience ...
... seems to be no effort to get beyond the inner self. In Christianity the inner self is simply a stepping stone to an awareness of God. Man is the image of God, and his inner self is a kind of mirror in which God not only sees Himself ...
... seems to include all this freedom and more still under the one heading of “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 ...
... 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 Canticle I,11–12) Yet at the end of this journey of faith and love ...
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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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |