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Striving Towards Being

The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz

by Thomas Merton

1997 177 pages eng

In 1958 Thomas Merton wrote an admiring letter to Czeslaw Milosz about his seminal work The Captive Mind. Milosz replied and thus began an animated correspondence which lasted until Merton's death in 1968. During this highly productive decade, Merton continued, a Trappist, to write about nonviolence…

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