The Seeker and the Monk

Download or read book The Seeker and the Monk written by Sophfronia Scott and published by Broadleaf Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditative journey into Thomas Merton's wisdom through the pages of his little-known journals, In The Seeker and the Monk, Sophfronia Scott mines the extensive private journals of Thomas Merton, one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past, for guidance on how to live in fraught times, Race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, love: with intimacy and a refusal to settle for cliché, Scott invites readers into the themes that occupied Merton and that still command our attention today. Book jacket.