Thoughts In Solitude | Free Book
Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was
originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the
pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet
reflection in an age when so little is private. Thomas Merton
writes: "When society is made up of men who know no interior
solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently
it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men
are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their
due, the society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with
servility, resentment and hate."
Thoughts in Solitude
stands alongside The Seven Storey Mountain as one of Merton's
most uring and popular works. 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.
In The Press
"The writing itself, uniformly high in quality, seems one great burst of energy—the lifeward push of a man who loved cities and people but who loved solitude and God more, and who found a tolerable midpoint when he was alone and writing to somebody." – The New Yorker
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