Seeds of Contemplation
Norfolk CT: New Directions, 1949.
First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #16735
Convent library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, fraying to spine head and tail, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; First Edition, Third Printing: This book was printed by Peter Beilenson, Mount Vernon, New York, in the Weiss and Caslon types, on a specially-made paper. Woven cloth covers with paper spine and front cover labels. "There is too much passion and too much physical violence for men to want to reflect much on the interior life and its meaning. Yet since the interior life and contemplation are the things we most of all need - I speak only of contemplation that springs from the love of God - the kind of considerations written in these pages ought to be something for which everybody, and not only monks, would have a great hunger in our time. And that is why I think a volume of more or less disconnected thoughts and ideas and aphorisms about the interior life needs no particular apology or excuse, even though this kind of book may have become unfamiliar." - Author's Note. Contains 27 short, reflective "seeds" - compact meditations meant to awaken the contemplative dimension of Christian spirituality. Early printing of this modern classic. ; Ex-Library; 201 pages.
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