The Journals of Thomas Merton July 5, 1965 “does my solitude meet the standard set by my approaching death?” “Solitude is not death, it is life” Apothegmata of the Desert Fathers Syrian greek acedia akedia listlessness fasting reading meditation study psalmody manual work “I am His mission to myself” “fatness” “real solitude” gaucheness Mantu “return to the world” “monastery is my milieu” pensees intimate Merton Hart Montaldo prades france 1915 the Seven Storey Mountain

Grief: Letter 89 of the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri ibn Yahya 1263-1381 Islamic Saint Sufi Master Maktubat-i Sadi translated by Paul Jackson in the classics of western spirituality “fling the sash off your turbaned head” q64:1 “do not locate the true source of creatures in their bodies” Moses frog ant David

Love’s Last Madness revised edition poem 32 / 41 in Mata’e Nur and poem 33 / 24 of Darshan Singh translated by Barry Lerner urdu mystical poetry “beyond the flight of thought” “the more their heads are kicked” “nothing in this world is more precious than steadfast love” “what is in a glance of love? .. it cannot be explained - you know it when it happens” poems on the spiritual path

Heedlessness Letter 88 of the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri translated by Paul Jackson in the classics of western spirituality the journey for the novice is impossible without an “experienced spiritual master” “blossoms of grief” “madman, sorcerer, or poet”

Mata’e Nur Treasure House of Truth Urdu poetry of Sant Darshan Singh translated to English in Love’s Last Madness by Barry Lerner poem 30 / 23 and poem 31 / 44 & 75 “but should the times see multitudes arrive at her court, what then? “Receiving something beyond conception” mystical sufi poetry

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj english talk “one little virus created havoc”

The Journals of Thomas Merton March 1965 to June 1965 from the Intimate Merton narcissistic regression consonantia and not confusio “I am both a prisoner and an escaped prisoner” “the hermit life is cool” “I had decided to marry the silence of the forest” Tzu Fu Rilke Chuang Tzu Tu Fu Lao Tzu Raissa Maritain Angela of Foligno

Love’s Last Madness reading of poem 28 and 29 / 22 & 56!of Mata e Nur by Darshan Singh Urdu poet translated by Barry Lerner Darshan’s grieving voice “my heart in burning at least gave light to my life” “a life of love’s sorrows has honed my poetic art” revised edition

Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj talk in hindi translated to English May 12 Layla and majnun St francis and the lepers 1918 isolation in our own homes SOS meditation science of spirituality sos.org positive mysticism

Letter 86: Coming to terms with oneself Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Paul Jackson wash your hands of yourself pain of Jesus Solomon and the ant Sufi Master