I bought this book while living in Northern California many, many years ago and never got around to reading it. It was one of the few books that I brought with me here to Ireland...
... and I finally got around to reading it.
Thomas Merton was a special and unique Trappist monk. He possessed a combination of keen intellect with an impressive yearning to know God. He was also a tireless writer full of curiosity, kindness, poetry, and spirituality.
His modern journey was one not too different from that of St. Augustine. This book will touch the contemporary reader as much or more so today as when it was first published in 1948.
A bit of a vagabond growing up (having lived in France, England, and America by the time he was a teen), he did not officially turn to Catholicism until his early 20's. And once he did he explored his religion in great depth and shared his experience in this wonderful autobiography written in his early 30's.
