Windows Toward the World (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God.” Thomas Merton. Contemplative Prayer . Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969: 90
Windows Toward the World (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
“No writing on the solitary meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.” Thomas Merton. Honorable Reader. Robert E. Daggy, editor. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1991: 91
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Sometimes it is valuable to step back from the hectic doings of our lives and reflect on deeper things...such as the direction of our lives. The mystic Thomas Merton wrote "Your life is shaped by the end you live for....
Unfolding Leadership (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Over at Whiskey River I found a stunning quotation from Thomas Merton’s book, New Seeds of Contemplation: “The false self consists of all of the efforts we make to nurture a reputation for ourselves in the mind of others. In our culture, we have a compulsive need to be validated by external sources. But the true [...]
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... academic officer" of Pepperdine University), who lists the following people as those he admires: Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, , , and Anne Lamott (all promoters of mysticism). In Tippens own book, Pilgrim Heart: The Way of Jesus in Everyday Life, Tippens references Thomas Merton a number of times and encourages the use of contemplative practices such as going into the...
what if? (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. Thomas Merton
From the Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... articles, which speak favorably of Catholic mystic Henri Nouwen, Catholic monk and mystic, Thomas Merton, and contemplative Richard Foster." Those articles are still on Zacharias' website.Our 2007 report on the Rethink also stated: The Rethink Conference is bringing together leaders from several different philosophical and religious camps under the auspices of Robert Schuller. If...
