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  O’Brien, John A. (John Anthony), 1893-1980
Oakhamian, The
Obedience. Notes.
Obstacles to rasa. Notes.
O'Connor, Flannery
Oikonomia and deification
Old Testament. Notes.
On aid to civilian war victims in Vietnam
On Racine, by Roland Barthes; and Writing degree zero, by Roland Barthes
On remembering Monsieur Delmas
On the other side of despair
One hundred poems of Kabir, tr. by Rabindranath Tagore; assisted by Evelyn Underhill
O'Neill, Jack
Open letter to the American hierarchy, An
Opening the Bible. Introduction to the Time Life Bible.
Openness and cloister
Opposition to idea of a religious man who obtains peace at any price...
Oriental, etc. Notes.
Orientation : back to Paradise
Origin of Russian communism, The; by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdiaev. Excerpts.
Orthodoxy and the world. Review of Ultimate questions and Sacraments and orthodoxy, by Alexander Schmemann
Osborne, Arthur, 1906-
Osuna, Francisco de, d. ca. 1540
Other side of despair, The : notes on Christian existentialism
Output of poetry of permanent value during the present century has been negligible, The : an essay by Thomas Merton written at Oakham School
Ox mountain parable of Meng Tzu, The


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Pacem in terris
Pachomius, Saint
Pacifism
Pacifism and resistance in Simone Weil
Paddock, John
Palestinian monasticism
Panichas, George Andrew, 1930-
Paradise bugged
Paradise ear, The
Paraguay missions
Parker, Harley
Parpert, Friedrich
Parra, Nicanor
Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Pasternak affair, The
Pasternak, Boris
Pasternak's letters to Georgian friends
Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978
Paustovsky, Konstantin, 1892-1968
Peace : a religious responsibility
Peace : Christian duties and perspectives
Peace and protest : a statement
Peace and revolution : a footnote from Ulysses (for Pax conference, Tivoli, 1968)
Peace book. Notes.
Peace on earth : a Christian responsibility
Peifer, Claude John, 1927-
Penco, Gregorio
Perfection, Christian
Perrin, Henri
Persian monasticism
Persian Sufis, The; by Cyprian Rice
Personal schedule (Fr. Louis) for hermitage, 1965; and Daily schedule (1943-1949)
Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935
Philosophie bantoue, La; by Placide Tempels
Philoxenus of Mabbugh. Notes.
Philoxenus, Bp. of Hierapolis
Pieces for a liturgical anthology. Notes.
Pieper, Josef
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958
Place of obedience in monastic renewal, The
Platform scripture of Hui Neng, The; translated by Wing-tsit Chan
Plato, The laws. Notes.
Pleasant Hill : a Shaker village in Kentucky, 1806-1910
Plessy vs. Ferguson : theme and variations
Poem written under an archway in a discontinued station, Fargo, N. D., A; by James Wright. Notes.
Poems of Nicanor Parra. Translation.
Poems of Raïssa Maritain. Translation.
Poetry and dharma
Poor Clares. Notes [for a conference]
Poorer means : a meditation on ways to unity
Pope of the Virgin Mary, The
Post-Hiroshima Christianity
Pouchet, Robert
Poverty. Conference notes.
Prayer
Prayer and our priestly vocation. Notes.
Prayer as worship and experience
Prayer of Cassiodorus, A / preface and translation by Thomas Merton ; from the treatise "De Anima"
Prayer of youth in choosing a state of life
Prayer to the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, A
Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Prayer, draft of a
Prayer. Notes on tape.
Prayer. Notes.
Pre-Benedictine monachism, series II : Syria, Persia, Palestine
Pre-Benedictine monasticism ; edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell ; preface by Sidney H. Griffith
Precious Blood Monastery, Alaska
Présence a Dieu et a soi meme, by Fr. François de Sainte-Marie, O.C.D. Introduction.
Prière et silence : le père Fr. M. Joseph Cassant
Priest and his mission, A
Priest and worker : autobiography of Henri Perrin, by Henri Perrin. Review.
Primer of non-violence
Primitives to Zen, From; by Mircea Eliade
Principia. Notes.
Prison meditations of Father Alfred Delp, The
Problems and prospects
Progress and tradition. Points for talks.
Prophetic ambiguities : Milton and Camus
Proposed canon on monastic life, by Louis Meyer, O.S.B. American Benedictine Review 17 (1966).
Protestant approach to Church
Protestant monasticism. Review of Die Monastische Gedanke, by Friedrich Parpert.
Psalms. Notes.
Psychedelic review. Comment (concerning new publication) on Editorial, The Psychedelic Review 6 (1965).
Psychedelic spirituality. Review of The mystical consciousness and world understanding, by Walter Houston Clark.
Psychiatry and the problem of religion
Psychological causes of war, The; by Erich Fromm. Comment.


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Rad, Gerhard von, 1901-1971
Radio script based on Merton's writings
Rahner, Karl, 1904-1984
Raids on the unspeakable
Rain : or Ionesco is nearer than you think
Rain and the feast of the stars, by Reiko Hatsumi
Rain and the rhinoceros
Raissa Maritain's poems
Ramana, Maharshi
Rance´, Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de, 1626-1700
Rasa
Ravier, André
Reading as a path to contemplation (for the Christmas Book Section of the Chicago Tribune)
Readings from Ibn Abbad
Rebirth and the new man in Christianity
Rectitudo chez Sainte Anselme, La; by Robert Pouchet.
Red or dead : the anatomy of a cliché
Redeeming the time : the Catholic church after Vatican II
Reflections on some recent studies of St. Anselm
Reflections on the character and genius of Fénelon : an introduction to Fénelon's letters
Re´gamey, P.-R. (Pie-Raymond), 1900-
Relevancy of RB, The
Relevancy of the rule today, by Sr. M. William McPherson, O.S.B. American Benedictine Review 17 (1966).
Religion and race in the U. S.
Religion in wood : a book of Shaker furniture, by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
Religion of Teilhard de Chardin, The; by Henri de Lubac
Renewal and discipline : afterthoughts
Renewal and discipline in the monastic life
Renewal in monastic education
Renewal in the contemplative life
Renewal mess. Article from the Commonweal. Comment by Thomas Merton.
Renewal of hermit life within the religious state. Notes.
Reply of Father Thomas Merton to Mr. Thomas Molnar
Reply to Dom Kucera. Comment on Monastic renewal revisited : ressourcement and aggiornamento, by Claude John Peifer.
Reply to Martin Marty
Resurrection homily
Retreat, November 1964 : Spiritual roots of protest. Notes.
Revision de vie. Conference notes.
Reyes, Neftalí Ricardo
Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco. Notes.
Rice, Cyprian
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926
Rise of protestant monasticism, The; by François Biot
Robinson, John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas), 1919-
Roseliep, Raymond, Fr., 1917-1983
Rubén Darío [Tribute to]
Rule of St. Benedict, The
Ruler's examination of conscience, A. Preface.
Russian Christianity
Russian mystics, by Sergius Bolshakoff
Rutledge, Denys
Ruysbroec, Jan van, 1293-1381


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Sacrament of Advent in the spirituality of St. Bernard, The
Sacraments and orthodoxy, by Alexander Schmemann
Sacred art
Sacred city, The
Sacred theology : contemplation
Sacred theology : hermit life
Sacred theology : perfection, Christian
Sacred theology : spiritual life
Saint Anselm and his argument
Saint Anselm and his biographer, by Richard William Southern
Saint Augustine as psychotherapist, by Martin Versfield, in Blackfriars 45 (March 1964): 98-110.
Saint Bernard, monk and apostle
Saint Bruno, le premier des ermites de Chartreuse, by André Ravier
Saint Gertrude. Review of Oeuvres spirituelles : I, les exercices, by Gertrude d'Helfta.
Saint Malachy
Saint Maximus the Confessor on non-violence
Saint. Anselm. Notes for a conference.
Sainte Moscou, La ; by Nikolai Sergeevich Arsen'ev
Salet, Gaston, 1891-1966
Salvus of Albelda, d. 972
Sandperl, Ira
Sasaki, Ruth Fuller, 1893-1967
Schedule of Fr. M. Louis. Ca. 1950.
Schema XIII : an open letter to the American hierarchy
Schillebeeckx, Edward, 1914-
Schmemann, Alexander, 1921-
Scripture and the Cistercian (scripture conference, 1951)
Seasons of celebration
Seeds of contemplation. Japanese.
Seeds of destruction
Seeds of destruction, I: the Christian in world crisis
Selections from Gandhi
Self of modern man and the new Christian consciousness, The
Self-devoted friend, The; by Marvin Cohen
Self-knowledge in Gertrude More and Augustine Baker
Sensitivity training, by Charlotte Buhler ; and The avant garde in the arts, by Henry Winthrop and Gerald Sykes.
Sentences : words made out of silence [from New seeds of contemplation]
Seraphim von Sarow, by Valentine Zander
Sermon of Isaac of Stella, A
Settlement of the Celtic saints in Wales, The; by Emrys George Bowen
Seven qualities of the sacred
Seven Storey Mountain, The
Seven Storey Mountain, The. Japanese.
Seven words (for Ned O'Gorman)
Sewanee Review
Seward, Desmond, 1935-
Shakers, The
Shaw, Agnes, Sr., O.S.B.
Shenhui, 668?-760?
Signatures : notes on the author's drawings
Signatures and autographs
Signed confession of crimes against the state, A
Significance of the Bhagavad-Gita, The. Preface to The Bhagavad Gita as it is, by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupFada.
Silva, Ludovico, 1937-1988
Simone Weil and the argument of Minerva. Notes.
Sin of sloth : acedia in medieval thought and literature
Sincerity in art and life : a letter of Owen Merton; edited and with an introduction by Thomas Merton
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897-1988
Small rain, The; by Raymond Roseliep
Socialistic education in Mexico (1938-1940). Notes on Covering the Mexican front, by Betty Kirk.
Sociedad que esta peligrosamente enferma, Una
Socrates
Solitary life in the shadow of a Cistercian monastery
Solitary life, The : a letter of Guido [I, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, 1083?-1136]
Solitary life. Notes.
Solitude
Some guidelines for monastic hermits
Some poems of Raissa Maritain. Translated and with an introduction by Thomas Merton.
Sophocles
Sounds are furious, The. Review of Faulkner : a collection of critical essays, edited by Robert Penn Warren.
Southern, R. W. (Richard William), 1912-2001
Spidli´k, Tomás
Spiritual consciousness in Zen from a Thomistic theological point of view, by Augustin Hideshi Kishi
Spiritual dialogue of East and West, The; by Jacques Albert Cuttat
Spiritual direction [article for the New catholic encyclopedia]
Spiritual direction [unpublished draft circa 1956]
Spiritual father in Christian monastic tradition, The
Spiritual father in the desert tradition, The
Spiritual life
Spiritual roots of protest, The. Retreat, November 1964. Notes.
Spiritualité psychédélienne
Split in Christian consciousness, The
St. Francis and Prayer of the heart and poverty in St. Francis. Notes.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Starter questions. Notes.
Statement : for Authors take sides on Vietnam
Statement concerning Thich Nhat Hanh, A
Statement for Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF)
Statement for Der Christ in der welt
Statement for the French TV on the "Black Revolution"
Statement on clerical celibacy
Statement on factory farming, A
Statement on University of Kentucky degree
Story of a life, The
Story of Fr. Dennis, The
Stranger as anti-hero, The
Stranger, The : poverty of an anti-hero
Stranger, The; by Albert Camus
Stranks, Charles James
Street is for celebration, The
Study of good, A; by Kitaro Nishida.
Study of Zen, The
Styron, William, 1925-2006
Sufism. Notes.
Suggestions for the prayer of the faithful
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, 1870-1966
Sykes, Gerald, 1903-
Symbolism : communication or communion?
Syrian monastic rules. Notes.
Syrian monasticism


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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
Taking sides on Vietnam
Talks on Rilke
Technique and personal devotion in the Zen exercise, by Heinrich Dumoulin, from Studies in Japanese culture (1963): pp. 17-40.
Technological society, The
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
Teilhardian wager, The
Teilhard's gamble : betting on the whole human species
Tempels, Placide, 1906-
Temptation of totalism
Ten poems of Alfonso Cortés. Translation.
Terror and the absurd : violence and non-violence in Albert Camus
Tetragrammaton. Notes.
Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus
Theodosius, the Cenobiarch, Saint, d. 529
Theological basis of the monastic ideal. Notes.
Theology of hope. Notes.
Theology of prayer. Notes.
Theoria to theory
Third spiritual alphabet, The; by Francisco de Osuna
Thomas Merton Reader, A
Thomas Merton talks about The small rain by Raymond Francis Roseliep
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Thornton, Martin
Thoughts in solitude. Preface to the Japanese edition. Nihon gohan e no jobun; Kodoku no naka no shisaku/ Translated into Japanese by Yasuwo Kikama.
Three Muslim sages, by Senned [sic] Hossein Nasr (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
Three pillars of Zen, The : compiled & edited by Philip Kapleau ; and The Zen Koan, by Isshu Miura and Ruth (Fuller) Sasaki.
Three prayers : written for Frank Kacmarcik [concerning the vocation of sacred artist, iconographer, or architect of religious spaces]
Three saviors in Camus
Time and the liturgy
Time Life Bible
Time of the end is the time of no room, The
To the Editor of Jubilee
To the Editors of the Commonweal
Tom's book : to Granny with Tom's best love 1916
Toward a renewal of eremitism. Appendix III.
Toward a theology of prayer. Ed. with an introd. by Naomi Burton Stone; transcribed by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O., from a talk delivered in India, 1968.
Tradition occidentale. Comment on article, "Saint Augustine as psychotherapist," by Martin Versfield, in Blackfriars 45 (March 1964): 98-110.
Tragedy of a worker-priest, The. Review of priest and worker : autobiography of Henri Perrin
Transcendent experience
Transformation of man in mystical Islam, The; by Fritz Meier, in Man and transformation (1964): 37-68.
Transmission by guru. Notes.
Trial of Pope Pius XII, The. Review of The deputy (Der stellvertreter), by Rolf Hochhuth.
Tribute to Flannery O'Connor, A
Tribute to Gandhi, A
Tribute to Rubén Darío
True legendary sound, The : the poetry and criticism of Edwin Muir. Review of Collected poems, Estate of poetry, and Essays on literature and society.
Truth and crisis : pages from a monastic notebook
Truth and violence : notes on an interesting era
Turbessi, Giuseppe, 1912-1979
Twelve poems of Fernando Pessoa ; tr. with an introd. by Thomas Merton
Twentieth century religious thought, by John Macquarrie
Two Chinese classics
Two Comments : "Sensitivity training" [by Charlotte Buhler] and "The avant garde in the arts" [by Henry Winthrop and Gerald Sykes]
Two Leggings, ca. 1847-1923
Two Leggings; the making of a Crow warrior / [edited by] Peter Nabokov. Review.
Two letters on the race question
Two paragraphs from Pacem in terris


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Ultimate questions, by Alexander Schmemann
Unamuno. Comment on Unamuno y la vida monástica, by Jesus Alvarez Arroyo. Yermo 4 (1966) 1-50.
Unbelief of believers, The
Underhill, Evelyn, 1875-1941
Universe as Epiphany, The : the spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
University of Kentucky degree. Statement.
Unpublished aphorisms
Upanishads. Notes.
Ureña, Pedro Henríquez
Utilisation de l'Écriture Sainte chez Anselme de Cantorbéry, L'; by Réginald Grégoire, O.S.B. [Revue d‘Acétique et de Mystique (Toulouse) 39 (1963) 273-293]


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Valdés Martínez, Germán
Vallejo, César, 1892-1938
Vanished Arcadia, A ; by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Varieties of unbelief, by Martin E. Marty
Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965)
Vatican council and sacred art, The
Vatican Pavilion, New York World's Fair. Script.
Versfeld, Marthinus
Vida en el amor, by Ernesto Cardenal
Vietnam : lotus in a sea of fire, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Vita monastica = vita apostolica. Conference notes.
Von Rad, Gerhard


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Waning of the visual, The; by Harley Parker
War and the crisis of language
War and vision : the autobiography of a Crow Indian
War as denatured prose
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Way of Chuang Tzu, The
Way of Chuang Tzu, The. Note. (Note on Chuang Tzu / A Note to the reader).
Ways of love, The
Weil, Simone, 1909-1943
Weisskopf, Walter A.
Wenzel, Siegfried, 1928-
Western mysticism, by Edward Cuthbert Butler
What is contemplation?
Where I found Christ ; edited by John A. O'Brien
White pebble, The
Who is it that has a transcendent experience?
Who is Nat Turner? Review of The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron.
Why some look up to planets and heroes. Poem by Thomas Merton.
Why we can't wait, by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wienpahl, Paul
Wild places, The. Review of Wilderness and the American mind, by Roderick Nash.
Wilderness and paradise in Christian thought, by George Williams
Wilderness and paradise. Review of Christ in the wilderness, by Ulrich Mauser, and Wilderness and paradise in Christian thought, by George Williams.
Wilderness and the American mind
William Congdon. Notes.
William, of Bourges, Saint, 1150-1209
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Williams, George Huntston, 1914-
Windows of Bourges, The. Notes on St. William of Bourges.
Winthrop, Henry
Woods, shore, desert : a notebook - May 1968
Word and example. Deleted chapter from Exile ends in glory.
Word and revelation, by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Work
Workshop given at Precious Blood Monastery in Alaska
World Campus on Non-violence
Worldly essays
Wright, James Arlington, 1927-1980
Writing as temperature. Review of Writing degree zero, by Roland Barthes and of On Racine, by Roland Barthes.
Writing degree zero, by Roland Barthes
Wu, John C. H. (Wu Jingxiong), 1899-1986
Wulfric of Haselbury, Saint, d. 1154


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X, Malcolm, 1925-1965


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Yahweh
Yoder, John Howard, 1927-1997
Your will and your vocation


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Zander, Valentine
Zander, Vera
Zen and Christian mysticism, by William Johnston, S. J.
Zen and the birds of appetite
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis, by D. T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard DeMartino
Zen Buddhist monasticism
Zen in Japanese art, by Toshimitsu Hasumi
Zen insight of Shen Hui, The
Zen Koan, The. Review of The three pillars of Zen, ed. by Philip Kapleau; and The Zen Koan, by Isshu Miura and Ruth (Fuller) Sasaki.
Zen, Weg zur Erleuchtung, by Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle
Zen. Notes.
Zukofsky : the paradise ear. Review of All the collected short poems, 1956-1964, by Louis Zukofsky.
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531