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	The Thomas Merton Center
		Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky.
		Merton is the author of more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism and writings on peace, justice and ecumenism.
		The Thomas Merton Center is the official repository of Merton's artistic estate which includes over thirteen hundred photographs and nine hundred drawings in addition to his writing.
	www.merton.org (153 words)

	Thomas Merton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist priest/monk and writer.
		Merton was born to Owen Merton and Ruth Jenkins.
		Merton felt especially deserted by his father, and during the initial months of schooling he begged to be removed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Merton (2036 words)

	Thomas Merton on Solitude - Articles - House of Solitude - Hermitary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Merton was strongly impressed by an issue of the French journal La vie spirituelle (October 1952) dedicated to "Blessed Solitude" and by Max Picard's The World of Silence, Merton's introduction to Christian existentialism and a resource for the rest of his life.
		In his second period, Merton's experience in contemporary monasticism had revealed the weakness of its modern-day spirituality, and he begins developing the theme of solitude not only as a basis for monks to separate from society (as in phase one) but for the spiritual development of individual monks for whom eremiticism can be an option.
		Merton is clearly familiar with a range of writings echoed in his new vocabulary: alienation, the absurd, the "stranger," mass man, and the need for psychological integration.
	www.hermitary.com /house/merton.html (2421 words)

	Thomas Merton Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Thomas Merton was born in Prades, France, on January 31, 1915, the first-born child of an American mother, born Ruth Jenkins, and a New Zealander, Owen Merton.
		Owen Merton travelled to the south of France and Algeria, made a success of his painting with a London exhibit, and took Tom (as he was known in the family) back to the south of France with him in 1925.
		Merton died of accidental electrocution on December 10, 1968, in Bangkok, where he was participating in a conference on monasticism and ecumenism.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-merton (1667 words)

	Welcome to the Thomas Merton Society of Canada website
		Speaker Jonathan Montaldo is Associate Director of the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living in Louisville, Kentucky and director of Bethany Spring, The Merton Institute Retreat Center in Trappist, Kentucky.
		The Thomas Merton Society of Canada presents Bridges to Contemplative Living, a one-day retreat on Sat.
		Co-sponsored by the Thomas Merton Society of Canada and St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican Church.
	www.merton.ca (604 words)

	Merton and Henri Nouwen: Western Explorers of the Christian East By Jim Forest, Traditional Catholic Reflections & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thomas Merton, in the early 1960s outside the hermitage at Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky."The real wilderness of the hermit is the wilderness of the human spirit, which is at once his and everyone else's," Merton wrote in the 1950s from the inside of a Kentucky monastery that valued silence and solitude.
		Merton came to see his artist father in his hospital room and, to his amazement, found the bed littered with drawings of "little, irate Byzantine-looking saints with beards and great halos." In a word, drawings of icons.
		Merton desperately wanted to pray, to light a candle, to kneel down, to pray with his body as well as his mind, but found the prospect of publicly kneeling in a church alarming.
	www.tcrnews2.com /MertonNouwen.html (7083 words)

	Thomas Merton - The Abbey of Gethsemani
		Thomas Merton, known in the monastery as Fr.
		Merton entered the Catholic Church in 1938 in the wake of a rather dramatic conversion experience.
		Merton died by accidental electrocution in Bangkok, Thailand, while attending a meeting of religious leaders on 10 December 1968, just 27 years to the day after his entrance into the Abbey of Gethsemani.
	www.monks.org /thomasmerton.html (364 words)

	Thomas Merton
		Merton was a prolific writer which was partly due to his isolation in a Trappist monastery in Kentucky where his fellow monks held to vows of silence.
		Merton admitted that venturing into the recesses of the mind via contemplative methods could be highly dangerous because it led to a dark and foreboding place.
		Merton’s writings are quoted by today’s advocates of his contemplative prayer methodology that he derived from dark sources as already documented.
	www.apostasyalert.org /Merton.htm (5466 words)

	Amazon.ca: No Man Is an Island: Books: Thomas Merton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky.
		Merton (1915-1968) was a contemplative monk, a Trappist, and although most of his readers may think themselves of another world, so to speak, it is the world of which Merton writes which is Real, and the clabbering, self-directed world of our common experience that is illusory.
		Thomas Merton's book is one that should not be passed up, it is absolutely profound for the interior solitude, the silence within, our silence where we find God's silence, who knows us and where we know Him.
	www.amazon.ca /No-MAN-Island-Thomas-Merton/dp/0156027739 (1556 words)

	Amazon.com: The Seven Storey Mountain: Books: Thomas Merton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Upon reading the spiritual autobiography of Thomas Merton, the immediate details of his life that boldly jutted out and painted the overall portrait of the man was his controlled yet cyclonic whirlwind of pell-mell inconsistency and the overall amorphousness of his ever evolving life up into manhood.
		Thomas Merton's life seemed to be the never-ending quest for the ultimate truth, and there were many byways that he chose in order to obtain that: literature, academia, writing, traveling, communism, rollicking around with friends and girlfriends in playful mirth, all the way down the gamut.
		Like Merton, one just has to run him or herself ragged with fighting the duality of the internal and external to come to that point, and the autobiography makes it known that it is not always a joy to have to hit the basest level of yourself to understand what you really are.
	www.amazon.com /Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton/dp/0156010860 (2873 words)

	Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk
		Thomas Merton was born on 31 January 1915 at Prades, France.
		Merton's life and thought speak so powerfully to so many precisely because he overcame false and crippling separations between self and God, church and world, prayer and politics.
		Merton's early love affair with traditional monastic life is reflected also in The Sign of Jonas - a monasticism characterised by the round of daily prayer, work, silence and biblical meditation.
	www.geocities.com /ganesha_gate/merton.html (3441 words)

	Thomas Merton: Prayer and Image
		Merton's stability at Gethsemani, through the thick and the thin of his passionate struggle for a better way to be a human being, is a major key to his appeal to a generation that risked, as he himself had risked, traveling down a road of rootless dissipation.
		Merton's joy--often muffled below the voicing of his public cares and concerns--situated him among those rare human beings who love the life they are leading and who have found their own true place.
		Merton was never afraid to walk away from himself when, through experience, prayer, and study, he found himself still too narrow and noninclusive to be a thoroughly catholic human being.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/excerpts/exc_20020116.shtml (1314 words)

	Thomas Merton
		Thomas Merton is arguably the most influential spirituality writer of the twentieth century.
		Merton wrote so extensively that it is possible to be overwhelmed with the breadth of his interests.
		Thomas Merton writes: "When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority.
	www.spiritualjourneypress.com /Merton.htm (896 words)

	Amazon.com: The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals: Books: Thomas Merton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		What the reader learns of Thomas Merton the man and the Trappist monk is that he was as sincere about what he wanted to accomplish with his life as he was in leaving us with a candid accounting of that life.
		Merton was not (and still is not) universally loved, even by the church and monastic hierarchies who claim him as a shining example of one of their own.
		Thomas Merton was a complicated, Thoreauvian figure who considered himself to be, among other things, an "amateur theologian." Yet an amateur is essentially a lover, and Merton, for all his faults and doubts, was certainly a lover of God.
	www.amazon.com /Intimate-Merton-His-Life-Journals/dp/0062516299 (4308 words)

	Catholicism, holiness and spirituality: Thomas Merton
		Merton's 'Springs of Contemplation' is essentially the transcript of a retreat conference that brought together groups of contemplative nuns at the Abbey of Gethsemani.
		Merton states that he found a lot of personal fulfillment in celibacy, and in return one of the nuns said, of the people she had dealt with:
		In The New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton writes that the root of war is fear, and then goes on to explain his argument in more detail.
	bogners.typepad.com /church/thomas_merton (2257 words)

	A CHRONOLOGY OF THOMAS MERTON'S LIFE
		Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century.
		After a rambunctious youth and adolescence, Merton converted to Roman Catholicism whilst at Columbia University and on December 10th, 1941 he entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, a community of monks belonging to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists), the most ascetic Roman Catholic monastic order.
		It was during this trip to a conference on East-West monastic dialogue that Merton died, in Bangkok on December 10, 1968, the victim of an accidental electrocution.
	www.merton.org /chrono.htm (1031 words)

	Thomas Merton books - The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton Series ( Thomas Merton Books, videos, cassettes ) The Life of Thomas ...
		The Fons Vitae Project for the study of world religions through the lens of Thomas Merton’s life and writing is a significant publishing event in inter-religious dialogue and exposure of the contemplative practices of the world’s major religions.
		Merton’s own writing about Sufism over various genres—essays, poetry and transcriptions of his conferences heretofore unpublished—were collected to indicate the depth and range of Merton’s intellectual and affective encounter with Islam.
		The personal practice of Merton’s “contemplative dialogues” with other religious traditions in the person of their major living and dead representatives invites the adoption of a similar inclusivity of mind in those who immerse themselves in Merton’s program for inner work to benefit the common life of all persons.
	www.fonsvitae.com /thomasmerton1.html (778 words)

	Thomas Merton books ; Thomas Merton - Merton and Hesychasm , The Prayer of the Heart ; The Eastern Church edited by ...
		Following the best-seller, Merton and Sufism, the Untold Story, a complete compendium of materials revealing the king of spiritual nourishment Merton gained from Islam and his profound friendship with the Muslims, Merton and Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart brings to light what inspired the monk’s captivation with the Oriental mystic tradition.
		Merton’s whole effort of mastering the tradition of Christian East and West, or rather of letting himself be mastered by it, was anything but antiquarian.
		Merton’s commentary is accompanied by major new essays by scholars in the fields of Eastern Christianity and Merton studies such as Bishop Kallistos Ware, Father Donald Allchin of England and James Forest of the U.S. and Holland, among others.
	www.fonsvitae.com /mertonhesychasm.html (954 words)

	Thomas Merton Center -Visit the Center
		The Thomas Merton Center is located on the second floor of the W. Lyons Brown Library at the center of the Bellarmine University campus.
		The Thomas Merton Center and Bellarmine University are closed on the following dates:
		Copyright (c) The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.
	www.merton.org /visit.htm (159 words)

	Thomas Merton Retreats
		This retreat is for persons who have a passion for knowledge of the life and works of Thomas Merton.
		His website for Merton, Thomas Merton-Monk and Poet, is a primary target for persons interested in the spiritual life of Thomas Merton.
		Thomas Merton Foundation is at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Ky.
	edge.net /~dphillip/Mertonretreats.html (936 words)

	Thomas Merton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Thomas Merton's Path to the Palace Of Nowhere
		Thomas Merton – Trappist monk, author, and student of Zen – remains one of the most important and beloved figures in the modern Christian contemplative movement.
		Now James Finley, who for six years lived, prayed, and studied with "Brother Louis," as Merton was known at the Abbey of Gethsemani, shares with us the gifts passed on to him by this towering figure on Thomas Merton’s Path to the Palace of Nowhere.
	www.ventana-catalog.com /thomas_mertonenl.htm (235 words)

	Thomas Merton - Impregnated with Sufism and Pantheism
		Although this prayer movement existed centuries before he came along, Merton took it out of its monastic setting and made it available to and popular with the masses.
		But for me, hands down, Thomas Merton has influenced New Age thinking more than any person of recent decades.
		Merton penned one of the most classic descriptions of New Age spirituality I have ever come across.
	www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com /merton.htm (430 words)

	Thomas Merton Monk and Poet
		There is also a special Thomas Merton Heretic Website where one can buy the audio tape if you are unable to receive the program.
		What Thomas Merton Means to Me Wayne Burns, a former student of Glenn Hinson, shares the meaning of Thomas Merton to his life.
		As a young man Merton traveled with his artist parents (his father was a New Zealander, his mother an American) in France and studied briefly at Cambridge University, England, before he went to the United States and earned (1939) a master's degree from Columbia University.
	edge.edge.net /~dphillip/Merton.html (2419 words)

	Alibris: Used, New and Out-of-Print Books, Music and Movies
		As an adult, Merton shunned a promising New York literary career, and opted instead for a monastic life at the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani near Louisville, Kentucky.
		As a Trappist monk with Buddhist and metaphysical leanings, Merton established himself as a one of the 20th century's most influential spiritual thinkers and social critics.
		Merton's earliest published works were collections of poems —Thirty Poems, A Man in the Divided Sea, and Figures for an Apocalypse.
	www.alibris.com /subjects/religion/feature-author.cfm (871 words)

	Thomas Merton : Poems and Biography
		Thomas Merton is a Catholic monk and mystic who, perhaps more than anyone else in the 20th century, is associated with opening up a dialog between the spiritual traditions of East and West.
		Thomas Merton Monk & Poet: A Critical Study, by George Woodcock
		The website of the Trappist monastery that Merton belonged to with its history and info on its monastic life.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /M/MertonThomas/index.htm (264 words)

	Thomas Merton's Marian Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
		Thomas Merton (center) sits among other participants in the Bangkok conference of Benedictine and Trappist monks.
		The monastery's formal portrait of Thomas Merton, Fr.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/poetry/merton03.html (161 words)

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