Thomas Merton

Essays, meditations, parables, and verse convey Merton's spirituality and present his thoughts on war, peace, love, literature, the Psalms, and Christian life.

The basic principles of Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (ahimsa) and non-violent action (satyagraha) were chosen by Thomas Merton for this compendium in 1965. In his challenging Introduction, Merton emphasizes action rather than pacifism as essential to non-violence, and illustrates how the foundations of Gandhi's universal truths are linked to traditional Hindu Dharma, the Greek philosophers, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Educated as a Westerner...