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The Seven Storey Mountain

By: Thomas Merton
Narrated by: Sidney Lanier
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From one of the 20th century's best-loved Christian writers comes this extraordinary spiritual testament. Thomas Merton was a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. In this memoir, he recounts his spiritual quest, one that led to his conversion to Catholicism.

Public Domain (P)2006 Phoenix Books, Inc. Christian Living Christianity Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Spirituality
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I couldn't put this down. It's a fabulous read, Merton writes like very few can. A wonderful spiritual biography. Only wish it were a bit longer!

Very short but superb

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Divine Love is described Divinely. This book, converted me over 20 years ago and inspires me NOW to continue until I complete my Doctoral thesis on this Divine Beauty.

The Beauty of Religious Life !

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In these words, Merton enables us to understand self abandonment and complete trust in God, our creator.

“But what was the answer to this paradox? Simply that the monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order, of union with God, the principle of all perfection. Omnis gloria ejus filiae regis ab intus.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”

This book is not a once only read. I will use it for ongoing spiritual reading and contemplation.

A spiritual journey and conversion. Masterful writing and excellent audible version

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This is a wonderful read and shows us the man and the loving spirit that each of us are from the point of view of a boy, a scholar and a monk. loved it.

Beautiful recounting of a spiritual journey

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loved it have long planned to finish it and finally listened to the entire book in one afternoon

honest simple

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