Thomas Merton
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My good friend Bob (who is also a writer and loyal follower of ClimbingSky) recently visited The Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky with his wife. The Trappist monastery was the home of Thomas Merton. It got me thinking about some of my favorite quotes from Merton. Here are a few that I think my fellow Read more
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ~ Thomas Merton Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on July 24, 2016 This time of year we notice the days growing shorter already in the North Country. Since I am up everyday between 5:00 and 5:30, the later and later sunrises become more noticeable every Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on February 4, 2011 When I think of Mark Van Doren, I always think of Thomas Merton. That is because it was Merton that first led me to read Van Doren, or rather, reading Merton’s Seven Read more
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“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the Read more
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