Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders.
In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside .
who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old.
It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary, with a passionate defense of the contemplative's quest for God.
The intense beauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makes The Silent Life a classic of its kind.
About the Author: Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual thinker of the twentiethcentury.
His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read after his untimely death in 1968.
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