louie, louie

Exploring contemplative awareness in daily life, drawing from and with much discussion of the writings of Thomas Merton, aka "Father Louie".

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

the new person

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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region call...
Monday, August 8, 2022

Merton's letter to the Mayor of Hiroshima, August 9, 1962

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60 years ago near the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Thomas Merton wrote the Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan: "In a solemn and grav...

I am the utter poverty of God

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This came to me via the  Facebook International Merton Society site , who got it from the " Spiritual ... But Not Religious"  blog...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

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  Map of Matter in the Universe Full sky map from ESA Plank mission showing matter between the earth and the edge of the observable universe...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

A dreadful hatred of life

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cover of the Manifesto pamphlet On this Earth Day, I post a Merton writing that was never published in America, indeed not much known about....
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Monday, April 18, 2022

still as trees in Spring

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            Line engraving by R. Strange, 1773, after himself, 1764, after G.F Barbieri, il Guercino,  Guercino, 1591-1666, Date 1773 “Conso...
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Saturday, April 16, 2022

the Lord of History

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  The tomb where Jesus's body is believed to have been laid, inside the Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem  (Getty) ...
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