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Title: When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature by Thomas Merton, Kathleen Deignan, John Giuliani, Thomas Berry ISBN: 1-893732-60-6 Publisher: Sorin Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Become One With the Creative Mystery
Comment: Kathleen Deignan, a professor of religious studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, really outdid herself here in compiling and editing some THREE HUNDRED works by Thomas Merton in this text. It's not a particularly long book, surprisingly, with only 190 some odd pages in it. With that being said, not much is left out here, either. It's by all means complete. There are chapters on the four seasons - on the mountains and the forests. Nature herself.
Merton even likens a mountain to sainthood, seeing God's creative beauty and wonder all throughout nature. If you have ever been to the Abbey of Gethsemani, you may understand why that is, too. The monastery is surrounded by absolutely stunning and expanding landscape, the perfect spot for the kind of reflection and introspection Merton apparently did in this work. He urges us to be engaged with nature. That probably means for us modernists to get out there off of our sometimes lazy butts and take a walk; go ride our bike. Whatever it is feel your connection to nature in a very raw sense. It opens up the sunshine that is already within. Merton's helpful finger pointing us the way in this work on how wonderful nature really is, serves as truly a great inspiration to do just that.
Rating: 5
Summary: say nothing is everything that matters
Comment: Kathleen Deignan's When the Trees Say Nothing
is a fresh rendition of Thomas Merton's writings evoked from creation. In times when chatter is normative and being alone is mistaken for loneliness we have a wonderful lectio book of quotes and context of 'seeing' from the inside.
This book will live beyond the writer but not without chanigng many readers into the vast beauty of 'silence'.
Rating: 5
Summary: Spiritually rewarding for readers of all faiths
Comment: Compiled and edited by Kathleen Deignan ( Sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame), enhanced with drawings by John Giuliani (Founder and Overseer of The Benedictine Grang, a spiritual center in West Redding, Connecticut), and featuring an informative foreword by Thomas Berry, When The Trees Say Nothing: Writings On Nature is an impressively thoughtful and thought-provoking collection of commentaries by the late Thomas Merton (1915-1968), an influential Catholic monk, poet, spiritual writer, and social activist. The commentaries, observations, and writings are superbly organized into eight chapters: Seasons; Elements; Firmament; Creatures; Festivals; Presences; and Sanctuary. These, along with the postscript "Sophia," a section of notes, a list of abbreviations, and a bibliography, combine in a movingly written, enthusiastically recommended volume of readings that are appropriate and spiritually rewarding for readers of all faiths who seek to experience the sacred and the sacramental in God's handiworks.
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Title: The Inner Experience : Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton, William H. Shannon ISBN: 0060539283 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0156010860 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton ISBN: 081120099X Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1974 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0374513252 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 29 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Praying the Psalms by Thomas Merton ISBN: 0814605486 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: December, 1956 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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