New Seeds of Contemplation

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New Directions Publishing, 2007 - 297 ページ
New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have compared Merton's reflections with those of Thoreau. New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man, to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our lives. For Merton, "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the soil of freedom, spontaneity and love."

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WHAT IS CONTEMPLATION?
1
WHAT CONTEMPLATION IS NOT
6
SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION
14
EVERYTHING THAT IS IS HOLY
21
THINGS IN THEIR IDENTITY
29
PRAY FOR YOUR OWN DISCOVERY
37
UNION AND DIVISION
47
SOLITUDE IS NOT SEPARATION
52
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST
150
LIFE IN CHRIST
158
THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN
167
HE WHO IS NOT WITH ME IS AGAINST ME
176
HUMILITY AGAINST DESPAIR
180
FREEDOM UNDER OBEDIENCE
191
WHAT IS LIBERTY?
199
DETATCHMENT
203

WE ARE ONE MAN
64
A BODY OF BROKEN BONES
70
LEARN TO BE ALONE
80
THE PURE HEART
84
THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF THE DEVIL
90
INTEGRITY
98
SENTENCES
104
THE ROOTS OF WAR IS FEAR
112
HELL AS HATRED
123
FAITH
126
FROM FAITH TO WISDOM
131
TRADITION AND REVOLUTION
142
MENTAL PRAYER
214
DISTRACTION
221
THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING
225
THE NIGHT OF THE SENSES
233
JOURNEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS
239
THE WRONG FLAME
245
RENUNCIATION
250
INWARD DESTITUTION
262
SHARING THE FRUITS OF CONTEMPLATION
268
PURE LOVE
275
THE GENERAL DANCE
290
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) entered the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, following his conversion to Catholicism and was ordained in 1949. During the 1960s, he was increasingly drawn into a dialogue between Eastern and Western religions and was actively engaged with domestic issues of war and racism. Sue Monk Kidd was born in Sylvester, Georgia. During her thirties, she became deeply influenced by the work of Thomas Merton and C. G. Jung, which would impact her writing in the years ahead. She is the author of When the Heart Waits (1990), The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (1996), The Secret Life of Bees (2002), which sold 4.5 million copies worldwide, The Mermaid Chair (2005), and Firstlight (2006).

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