A Matter of the Heart (eBook)

A Monk's Journal

Paul Quenon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
165 Seiten
Monkfish Book Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-958972-42-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a treasure-chest of wisdom and beauty and fun. Brother Pauls delight in the world, and his gift for putting words to wonder, would make his old novice master Thomas Merton beam. Best of all, a deep sense of contentment and peace arises from these pages that can remind the monk in every one of us how we might choose to live. Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known Life: In Search of ParadiseA contemplative monks musings on living a useless life.Brother Paul bears witness of being keenly aware that every aspect of his monastic vocation has been carefully crafted to nurture and protect the contemplative way of life in which one is called to seek and to find and give oneself to God who is wholly poured out and given to us in the gift of life itself. James Finley, author of The Healing PathIn the spirit of Thomas Mertons The Sign of Jonas come five decades of life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky from the private journals of one of Mertons former novices, Brother Paul Quenon.Readers are introduced to multiple aspectsthe inwards and outwardsof a monks life. Reflections, meditations, insights, and wanderings are mingled with outward experiences in nature, community, and sketches of monkssaintly, comical, or strangepoetic moments. Remarks are made on world events, seen from a local and momentary perspective, such as the war in Iraq, or the end of the war in Vietnam. Private discoveries of animal behavior, and magical locations for prayer are experienced with wonder. No daily chronology is followed, but entries are arranged from the 1970s to the 2000s according to the decade they occurred in, including the visit of the Dalai Lama and other occasions when this contemplatives life has intersected with spiritual teachers outside the monastery. Overall, a multi-colored, diverse, and surprising display of what it is like to live an enclosed life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2024
• Nachwort: James Finley
• Vorwort: Fenton Johnson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: Contemplation • Haiku • Koan • Merton • Monasticism • Prayer • Trappist • Trees • Uselessness
• ISBN-10: 1-958972-42-8 / 1958972428
• ISBN-13: 978-1-958972-42-7 / 9781958972427