Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5: 1963-65: 1963-65 - Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage v. 5 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5: 1963-65: 1963-65 - Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage v. 5 Book

The '60s were a time of restlessness, inner turmoil and exuberance for Merton, a time during which he closely followed the careening development of political and social activism -- Martin Luther King Jr., and the March on Selma; the Catholic Worker Movement; the Vietnam War and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Volume 5 chronicles the approach of Merton's fiftieth birthday and marks his move to Mount Olivet, his hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani, where he was finally able to embrace fully the joys and challenges of solitary life: "In the hermitage, one must pray or go to seed. The pretense of prayer will not suffice. Just sitting will not suffice... Solitude puts you with your back to the wall (or your face to it!), and this is good" (October 13, 1964).Making his struggles and his happiness practically tangible on these pages, Merton was never a better writer than in his journals. His gifts are as abundantly clear in this volume as in its predecessors."'Publishers Weekly"Merton at his best: sophisticated, honest, humorous, and mystical."'Kirkus Reviews"When all the journals are published, it is likely that they will take their place with the famous journals of Henry David Thoreau, G. M. Hopkins, Edmund Wilson, and perhaps be seen as an American version of St. Augustine's `Confessions.'"'Catholic News ServiceRead More

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  • 0060654821
  • 9780060654825
  • Thomas Merton
  • 5 January 1998
  • HarperSanFrancisco
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
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