6/10/2023 0 Comments The seven storey mountain![]() And this will be due not to me but to… ( tovább) Who can tell what this may mean? I myself do not know, but if you listen, things will be said that are perhaps not written in this book. ![]() The best reason to read The Seven Storey Mountain, however, may be the one Merton provided in his introduction to its Japanese translation: „I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into sticky-sweet abstractions, Merton's autobiographical reflections are mostly wise, humble, and concrete. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. ![]() ![]() Talk about losing your life in order to find it. In 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. ![]()
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