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Highlights
- Thomas Merton's most intimate work--a stunning devotional beaming with prayers, poems, and never-before-seen drawingsThe perfect companion for daily prayer and reflection, this spiritual guide and gift combines Merton's artistic and contemplative sides, showing readers a different side of this beloved writer and theologian.Grippingly filled with warmth and comfort, Dialogues with Silence is a rich a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life--from his journals, letters, poetry, books--accompanied by all 100 of Merton's rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings.
- Author(s): Thomas Merton
- 208 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Prayerbooks
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An intensely personal devotional from the ultimate spiritual writer of modern times, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and drawings.Book Synopsis
Thomas Merton's most intimate work--a stunning devotional beaming with prayers, poems, and never-before-seen drawings
The perfect companion for daily prayer and reflection, this spiritual guide and gift combines Merton's artistic and contemplative sides, showing readers a different side of this beloved writer and theologian.
Grippingly filled with warmth and comfort, Dialogues with Silence is a rich a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life--from his journals, letters, poetry, books--accompanied by all 100 of Merton's rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings. This elegant collection is designed to savored slowly, leaving readers with a profound sense of hope and enlightenment.
Vulnerable, inspiring, and unlike any other devotional published, this assortment of spiritual astonishment is the perfect companion to daily prayer, meditation, and reflection in all its glorious forms.
From the Back Cover
The Private Merton
This intensely personal book from the ultimate spiritual writer of our time shows his contemplative and devotional side through his prayers and rarely seen drawings. Capturing the quiet epiphanies in the life of a Trappist monk who was a celebrated writer and activist, this volume offers a glimpse into a lesser-known side of this timeless explorer of the life of the soul.
Review Quotes
"This is Thomas Merton at his most profound: a book to linger over and savor." -- Lawrence S. Cunningham, editor of Thomas Merton: Spiritual Master
"This is a charming and welcome addition to the Merton corpus, giving us a glimpse of Merton the artist." -- Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of GAIA & GOD
"Whether you're a long-time Merton fan or need an introduction, Dialogues with Silence is a great unveiling." -- BookPage
"[These drawings and prayers] reflect a devotional life stripped of pretense, open to God's surprises." -- Christian Century
"Casts new and thought provoking light on [Merton's] finely written prayers...highly recommended." -- Library Journal
"...a glimpse of [Merton's] journey never before seen. Merton fans will certainly welcome this new addition." -- Publishers Weekly (shaded review)
"Helps the reader enter Merton's spiritual vision and participate personally in the monk's encounters with Silence." -- America Magazine
"[Thomas Merton] is perhaps the proper patron saint of our information-saturated age, of we who live and move and have our being in social media, and then, desperate for peace and rest, withdraw into privacy and silence, only to return. As we always will." -- The New Yorker