The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton
Merton's 1948 autobiography: a restless young intellectual's conversion and entry into a Trappist monastery. A twentieth-century classic of spiritual search.
Read it if…
you want a conversion story with literary weight.
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Skip it if…
you want brevity; it is long.
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Three things you will actually use
- Restlessness has a direction.
- Surrender can be a decision.
- Vocation finds you.
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Read the chapters on Columbia and his conversion.
Our verdict
Merton's conversion.
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