The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation

Year 2003
Type Book
Genre contemplative spirituality
Tradition Catholic
Original language English

For For readers who know New Seeds of Contemplation and want his fuller late statement on contemplation; not for a first reading.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher: 5 of 5 essential
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

His revision, never finished, of What Is Contemplation?, drawing on Christian and Eastern traditions; published 2003.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 3 of 5
Scriptural 1 of 5
Experiential 5 of 5
Sociological 1 of 5
Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A book Merton began in 1959 as a revision and expansion of his early essay What Is Contemplation? and never completed for publication. Edited and introduced by William H. Shannon, it was published by HarperSanFrancisco in 2003 (176 pages). Drawing on both Christian and Eastern traditions, it considers the meaning of contemplation in daily life and the heart of monastic and religious experience, and connects his earlier and later writing.

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