The journals of Thomas Merton November and December 1959 koan mexico philokalia 100 books hears from Rome cenobitism religious journalist otium sanctum Irving Berlin Blue Skies no indult Robert Lax circus “this is an awful place” Gethsemani cheese factory shakers “I was likely to take off with a women and leave the Church”

The selected selected journals of Thomas Merton 1959 March 18, 1959 “a quiet morning reading in the woodshed” Cuernavaca Mexico afternoon in the woods “simply live as best I can” missionary solitude indult mystical action may need a geographic change Intimate Merton either become a monk or get married Gethsemani Harper San Francisco

Spiritual Awakening by Darshan Singh chapter 8 santdarshansingh.org spiritualawakeningradio love’s last madness internet archive glance of grace ten years five years “there is no need for milestones” “milestones are not enough” “the ambit of eternity” “we must wend our way” “we must move faster than time” “why this delay” birthday “celebrations can only be a mockery” “it is for us to respond to the lightest heartbeat of every leaf, to learn from every object with which nature surrounds us” “we have to develop a kind of alertness” “I set out at the dawn of creation; now I am approaching its sunset. Life is short, but the journey of love is long. Diwali cleaning for the Goddess of Wealth “have our eyes remained fixed at the entrance” born 1921 -1989 Dayal Purush Gracious Master Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj urdu poet

The journals of Thomas Merton October 12, 1958 Boris Pasternak Dr Zhivago “My Zen is in the slow swinging tops of sixteen pine trees “the meaninglessness of any life that is not lived in the face of death” Zen Suzuki “God has put me” “what am I here for” asceticism humanism solitude “do things my way”

Surrender Chapter 29 in Spiritual Awakening by Darshan Singh Urdu Mystic Poet Hafiz Jaman fruit Hazur Baba Sawan Singh “if your Master orders you to dye your prayer mat with wine, so so” poverty ill health ignominy burden of our luggage baggage “two paths: effort and grace or surrender”

Global Meditation in Place talk in English by Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj April 22 2020 Earth Day “We are all connected” “whatever you do the effect goes far away” Air Water Pollution Adults are taking from the environment. “don’t do bad things and always do good things” Nonviolent Humility the ego says “everything is for us” “destroying the environment is destroying us” “the last century we lost the balance” selfless service “plants and trees have medicinal value” Be Good Kirpal “become good and then do good” youtube live sos.org sant mat skrm science of spirituality

Spiritual Awakening by Darshan Singh chapter 28 “but I derive my intoxication from the cold-blooded murder of my desires” single glance “the truth of the mystic path that you do not find in books” Path of tears dampness “when love dances on the heart, it pains” Beloved Master Sant Kirpal Singh Ji “when your grief transcends all bounds, it becomes its own cure” Ghalib Muhammed Iqbal “it is love which brings about the high and low notes in music divine” Dayal Purush Gracious Master Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj

Letter 60: Meditation in The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri translated by Paul Jackson in the Classics of Western Spirituality 1980 Paulist Press New York Mahwah “meditate on His creation” “one hour of meditation is worth sixty years of worship” “such meditation is equivalent to sixty years of good works” “the Quran is revealed to him who meditates” “change” “make the way ...easy” “I simply cannot stay cooped up in my own house” ibn Yahya Makhdum ul-Mulk Sahib 1263-1381 Bihar Maktubat-i Sadi

Live broadcast of Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj April 21 translated to English Cycles of creation ecology sos.org

The intimate journals of Thomas Merton April 28, 1957 unite East and West Greek and Latin Fathers love fires warblers Yahweh modern physics contradictions bourgeois intellectual withdrawal conforming Koan fled to America Marx simplicity of flowers shallow english roots south america dream dear Proverb a young jewish girl The Intimate Merton Hart Montaldo