description: A beautiful gift edition of the classic book of meditations. 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. Thoughts in Solitude stands alongside The Seven Storey Mountain as one of Thomas Merton's most enduring and popular works. When men are merely submerged in a mass of impersonal human beings pushed around by automatic forces, they lose their true humanity, their integrity, their ability to love, their capacity for self-determination. When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by 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. -from Thoughts in Solitude
language: English
title: Thoughts in Solitude
titlecomplete: Thoughts in Solitude
genres: Faith, Religion, Catholic, Philosophy, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Prayer, Theology, Christian, Christianity
ratings_count: 3210
publisher: Doubleday