Being Silenced by inner knowledge

Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was an American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.
James Finley left home at the age of 18 for the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative. Finley stayed at the monastery for six years, living the traditional Trappist life of prayer, silence, and solitude. Here Finley describes life with Thomas Merton, and how he pointed the way to an enlightened state of awareness open to us all.

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My dad used to say: "Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit".

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Sometimes there is just sitting...

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@Martin Patrick Here you are again spewing your hatred and false teaching in yet ANOTHER comments section! Please repent Martin. This is not the way brother.

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Love the explanation of unknowing

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In his book "Seven Storey Mountain" that he later described himself as having been immature when he wrote it: he initially wrote of entering the Franciscans because they seemed to be the easiest. Then he was not accepted by them, and after that Dan Walsh started speaking to him about the Abbey of Gethsemani that he (Dan) was familiar with. Merton wrote that first to himself mentally (something like alarm bells went off), he thought there was no way he could do that. The Cistercians were known as one of/or the strictest order. But he let Dan Walsh run off a checklist about them, and in his mind he kept saying: "No, I cannot do that", especially when Dan said they were vegetarians, Merton said no, he could never give up meat. Very soon after, however, he was confronted with a choice, which was to accept the draft and become a soldier, as USA had just entered the war or try to get into Gethsemani and learn how to become a peaceful, non-violent person, and this he did.

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what is this from?

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The name of the book is the same "Merton's Path to the Palace of Nowhere" by James Finley. In the book he uses references to the many writings of Thomas Merton.