Este livro expressa as preocupações mais ou menos presentes a todos os contemplativos – admitidas as diferenças de temperamento e personalidade. Não tem outra finalidade ou ideal em vista senão o que deve ser a realização normal da vida cristã da graça. Portanto, tudo o que é dito aqui pode ser aplicado a qualquer pessoa, não só no mosteiro, mas também no mundo.
Thomas Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, as well as scores of essays and reviews. Merton was a keen proponent of interfaith understanding.
Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the US. Merton's letters and diaries, reveal the intensity with which their author focused on social justice issues, including the civil rights movement and proliferation of nuclear arms. He had prohibited their publication for 25 years after his death. Publication raised new interest in Merton's life.
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