The True Solitude: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, priest, and author of more than thirty books including the bestselling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, died accidentally just before Christmas, 1968. He left behind a deeply, thoughtful, tough-minded body of writings about spiritual living in the modern world. The True Solitude offers selections for those writings for all who would explore the interior life. Here are notes, opinions, reflections, experiences, and meditations from the mind of one of the century's most celebrated religious thinkers. They examine the sources of faith in nature, the necessities of solitude, the search for God's grace, and the ways of peace -- for oneself and for the strife-torn world.