New Seeds of ContemplationNew Directions Publishing, 1972 - 297 pagine This edition is a much-enlarged and revised version of Seeds of Contemplation, one of the late Father Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved works. In its original form, the book was reprinted ten times in this country alone, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Chinese and Japanese. 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 spiritual lives. For Father 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 good soil of freedom, spontaneity and love." |
Sommario
WHAT IS CONTEMPLATION? I | 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 |
LEARN TO BE ALONE | 80 |
THE PURE HEART | 84 |
THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF THE DEVIL | 90 |
INTEGRITY | 98 |
SENTENCES | 104 |
THE ROOT OF WAR IS FEAR | 112 |
HELL AS HATRED | 123 |
FAITH | 126 |
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able accept activity Arthur Rimbaud awakening aware become Benedict Joseph Labre Bernadette Mayer Carthusian Christ Church Cistercian concept contemplation contemplative prayer created things darkness death deep depths desire divine emptiness enter evanescent everything evil existence experience external Ezra Pound faith false feel freedom gift give glory God's love grace happiness hate hatred heart Heinrich von Kleist hidden holy Holy Spirit human humility illusion images imagination infinite interior kind light live longer means meditation mercy merely metaphysi mind monastery moral theology Muriel Spark mystery mystical nature ness Nestorian never obedience obscure ourselves pain peace perfect perfectly perhaps person pleasure possess poverty praise pray prayer presence pure reality realize reason rest sacrifice saints sanctity secret Selected Poems selfishness sense share silence simply solitude soul spiritual suffering supernatural templation theology Thomas Merton thought tion true truth union virtue whole words
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