http://venturearchitecture.com/copy-of-roth-condos When I tried to read Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain while in college – a book compared (by the publishing trade) with Augustine’s Confessions – I was astounded to find the book self-promoting, egotistical, petty, and posturing, without a single elevated thought or even sentence that could place it with the Confessions. This is one […]
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Thomas Merton’s Wisdom of the Desert.
13-Sep-09buy provigil in the uk From the introduction to his collection of sayings of the Desert Fathers: We cannot do exactly as they did. But we must be as thorough and as ruthless in our determination to break all spiritual chains, and cast off the domination of alien compulsions, to find our true selves and develop our inalienable spiritual liberty […]