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Podcast: Poems of Annihilation
Episode: The Hidden Joy of reading the Journals of Thomas Merton in the early morning
Description: The Journals of Thomas Merton July 5, 1965 “does my solitude meet the standard set by my approaching death?” “Solitude is not death, it is life” Apothegmata of the Desert Fathers Syrian greek acedia akedia listlessness fasting reading meditation study psalmody manual work “I am His mission to myself” “fatness” “real solitude” gaucheness Mantu “return to the world” “monastery is my milieu” pensees intimate Merton Hart Montaldo prades france 1915 the Seven Storey Mountain