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Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton, 1988. While a trappist monk Merton's spirtuality, intelectual curiousity and writing ability allowed him to create exceptional English language works based on Eastern thought.
The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals by Thomas Merton (edited by Patrick Hart and Jonathan Montanaldo), 2001. Excepts from his Journals from 1939 (prior to entering the Monistary) to 1968 (within days of his death). Hardcover - 1999.
Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation (The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1) by Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (editor), 1996. Covers 1939-1941.
The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani by Thomas Merton, Jane M. Richardson (editor), 1997. Merton talks with nuns on retreats in December 1967 and May 1968. His words are quite radical when viewed from within the Catholic Church. For those wihtout an ingrained sense of what it is to grow up within the Catholic Church it may seem less interesting than many of his other ideas.
