The Inner Experience: Notes on ContemplationHarper Collins, 2012 M09 11 - 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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... become more and more public and common property.And as time goes on it seems evident that what we have to share ... becoming always better and better, so that soon we ONE A Preliminary Warning.
Notes on Contemplation Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon. lot becoming always better and better, so that soon we will ... becoming a contemplative”you will probably waste your time and do yourself considerable harm by reading this book ...
... become a kind of superior being by enrolling himself in an esoteric elite of so-called contemplatives.It does not prescribe any new devout attitudes. It does not encourage a ceremonious and self- righteous withdrawal from everyday ...
... become a contemplative.”That is, he will wish to admire, in himself, something called contemplation. And in order to see it, he will reflect on his alienated self. He will make contemplative faces at himself like a child in front of a ...
... becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much something that we ourselves have,as something that we are.It is a new and indefinable quality of our living being. The inner self is as secret as God and,like Him ...
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THREE Society and the Inner Self | 19 |
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 - 2004 |
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 |