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Title: Thomas Merton Deserves Better
Review: I read this because I enjoy John Katz's work and also Thomas Merton's [having spent a week at the Abbey at Gethsemani last year]. While the book is entertaining, the idea of it having anything to do with Merton's quest for solitude, contemplation and a soul jouney is misleading. Had Katz ever [even for a week], turned off the computer, telephone, CD, TV, etc. he might have had a chance at interior change. His reasoning that, unlike Merton, he had found inner peace.....was self-serving. He may tell himself that he wanted to take a spiritual jouney with Merton [page 14], but he was never willing to do the "work."
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