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A YEAR WITH
T H O M A S M E RT O N Daily Meditations from His Journals
Thomas Merton Selected and edited by Jonathan Montaldo
Contents
LEARNING LOVE’S LANGUAGE: THE SPEECH A DAY MAKES JANUARY 1 A Breath of Zen
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JANUARY 2 The Silence in Yourself
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JANUARY 3 New Year’s Darkness
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JANUARY 4 The Speech of God Is Silence
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JANUARY 5 Her Presence Demands My Love
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JANUARY 6 Winter Hermitage Under Black Pines
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JANUARY 7 The Sin of Wanting to Be Heard
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JANUARY 8 Solitude and Gentleness
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JANUARY 9 Deepening the Present
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JANUARY 10 God Is the Room I Rest In
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JANUARY 11 With a Pure and Empty Heart
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JANUARY 12 The Peace of Being Nothing Special
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JANUARY 13 Unlearning All Tension in Solitude
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JANUARY 14 Thrown into Contradiction
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JANUARY 15 One Dog’s Good Afternoon
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JANUARY 16 Content to Be Happy
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JANUARY 17 Weary of Words
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JANUARY 18 An Ecology of Silence
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JANUARY 19 Reality and the Ordinary
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JANUARY 20 Rediscovering Jesus
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JANUARY 21 My Deep Youthful Shyness
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JANUARY 22 Out to Sea Without Restraints
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JANUARY 23 Unveiling the Heart
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JANUARY 24 Moments of Angelic Lucidity
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JANUARY 25 I Begin to Awaken
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JANUARY 26 Faithful to the Truth
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JANUARY 27 The Necessity of Adoration
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JANUARY 28 Seeing the Center from Somewhere Else
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JANUARY 29 Going Nowhere, Having Nothing to Do
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JANUARY 30 On the Eve of a Birthday
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JANUARY 31 The Gift of My Life
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FEBRUARY 1 The Climate of My Prayer
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FEBRUARY 2 Bearing Witness to the Resurrection
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FEBRUARY 3 The Fellowship of Stars and Crows
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FEBRUARY 4 A Priest with the World as My Parish
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FEBRUARY 5 We Are Not Shadows of God
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FEBRUARY 6 Every Next Instant Reveals God’s Will
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FEBRUARY 7 My Place in the Scheme of Things
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FEBRUARY 8 Sealed Together in Christ
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FEBRUARY 9 Out of Touch and Left Behind
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FEBRUARY 10 Blessings of Emptiness and Peace
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FEBRUARY 11 Sunlight on a Vase of Carnations
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FEBRUARY 12 The Power of Jesus’ Passion in Us
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FEBRUARY 13 Get Warm and Love God Any Way You Can
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FEBRUARY 14 An Untidy Holy Life
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FEBRUARY 15 On Not Going Crazy for Christ
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FEBRUARY 16 Hidden Movements of Christ’s Grace
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FEBRUARY 17 Absent from the Wedding Feast
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FEBRUARY 18 In the Darkness of My Empty Mind
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FEBRUARY 19 Healing Our Flesh
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FEBRUARY 20 Solitude Is a Stern Mother
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FEBRUARY 21 Where Your Treasure Is
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FEBRUARY 22 The Wonder of God’s Mercy
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FEBRUARY 23 Belonging Entirely to God
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FEBRUARY 24 He Made the Desert Holy
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FEBRUARY 25 Christ Has Known Our Exile
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FEBRUARY 26 Our Blindness
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FEBRUARY 27 Clinging to God
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FEBRUARY 28 A Life of Clashes and Discoveries
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FEBRUARY 29 A Bleak Extra Day
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MARCH 1 In Me God Takes His Joy
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MARCH 2 The Comfort of Frogs
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MARCH 3 With Contrite Hearts to God
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