Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.2:

Viewpoints

Item 1 - [00 - Bound copy / later draft] No man is an island

First Lines:  PROLOGUE: NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be,

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Copy Type:  Typescript and typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  233

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Language:  English

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Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 2 - [01] VIEWPOINTS Copy ii (censor) CONTENTS

First Lines:  I The Wind blows where it Pleases [-] II Love Can only be Kept by being Given Away

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  2

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Language:  English

Notes:  Cover with handwritten note and table of contents page. Chapter sequence varies slightly from stated order.

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Item 3 - [02] VIEWPOINTS. PREFACE.

First Lines:  Like an earlier volume, Seeds of Contemplation, to which this is a sequel, this book is

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Number of pages:  3

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Language:  English

Notes:  Original preface which was completely changed for the later draft found in the bound copy. Pages i-iii.

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Item 4 - [03] THE WIND BLOWS WHERE IT PLEASES.

First Lines:  God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometime to be present, sometimes absent.

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  6

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 1-6.

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Item 5 - [04] LOVE CAN ONLY BE KEPT BY BEING GIVEN AWAY.

First Lines:  A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  10

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 7-16 [original numbering, 45-52, 54-55].

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Item 6 - [05] SENTENCES ON HOPE.

First Lines:  We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts

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Number of pages:  8

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 17-24 [original numbering, 37-44].

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Item 7 - [06] Conscience - Freedom and Prayer. PURE INTENTION.

First Lines:  To consider persons, and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  18

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 25-42 [original numbering, 56-60m].

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Item 8 - [07] PURE INTENTION.

First Lines:  flames within His Flame. The will of the Lord is not a static center drawing our souls blindly

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  19

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Language:  English

Notes:  First page missing, pages 44-62 [original numbering, 71-89].

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Item 9 - [08] THE WORD OF THE CROSS.

First Lines:  The word of the Cross is foolishness, ays [sic] St Paul, to them that perish. (I Corinthians 1:18)

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  16

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 63-78 [original numbering, 90-105].

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Item 10 - [09] ASCETICISM AND SACRIFICE SANCTITY AND THE BODY.

First Lines:  The spiritual life is not a mere negation of matter. When the new Testament speaks of "the flesh"

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  20

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 79-98 [original numbering, 171-190].

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Item 11 - [10] BEING AND DOING.

First Lines:  We are warmed by fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by

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Number of pages:  10

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 99-108 [original numbering, 144-153].

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Item 12 - [11] (being and doing- contd) VOCATION

First Lines:  Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  15

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 109-123 [original numbering, 154-161h].

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Item 13 - [12] MERCY.

First Lines:  How different is the living God, the Father are [sic] Redeemer of the poor, from the false God whose

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  9

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 124-132 [original numbering, 162-170].

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Item 14 - [13] THE MEASURE OF CHARITY.

First Lines:  In the economy of divine charity we have only as much as we give. But we are called upon to give as

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Number of pages:  20

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 133-152 [original numbering, 124-143].

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Item 15 - [14] SINCERITY.

First Lines:  Men are gradually losing all sense of their need for truth. We can hardly forget that we need

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Number of pages:  18

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 153-170 [original numbering, 106-123].

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Item 16 - [15] GOD CANNOT BE REMEMBERED. God cannot be remembered. He can only be discovered.*f.n.

First Lines:   The "remembering of God, of which we sing in the Psalms, is simply the rediscovery, in deep

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Number of pages:  5

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 182-186 [original numbering, 7-11].

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Item 17 - [16] THE INWARD SOLITUDE.

First Lines:  Charity is a love for God which respects the need that other men have for Him.

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  17

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 187-201 [original numbering, 22-36].

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Item 18 - [17] ASHES ARE MORE PROFITABLE THAN SPEECHES.

First Lines:  The rain ceases, and a bird's clear song suddenly announces the difference between heaven and hell.

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Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  10

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Language:  English

Notes:  Pages 202-212 [should be 211], [original numbering, 12-21].

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Item 19 - [18 - Scriptural references]

First Lines:  SET THEE A HARVEST - Osee 6-11 [-] LOOK UPON THE RAINBOW [-] Eccus 43-12 [-] WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS

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Number of pages:  1

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