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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,621 ratings — published 530
The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,460 ratings — published 1948
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,999 ratings — published 1996
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 16 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,632 ratings — published 1975
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,124 ratings — published 600
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 271 ratings — published 1960
New Seeds of Contemplation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 9,499 ratings — published 1962
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 719 ratings — published 1984
The Practice of the Presence of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 62,675 ratings — published 1692
In This House of Brede (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,110 ratings — published 1969
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,826 ratings — published 357
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 180 ratings — published 1984
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 3,307 ratings — published 2008
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 651 ratings — published 357
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 406,603 ratings — published 1980
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 6,724 ratings — published 2017
John Cassian: Conferences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 309 ratings — published 1950
Thoughts in Solitude (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,503 ratings — published 1956
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5,561 ratings — published 1993
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 78 ratings — published 2004
The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,531 ratings — published 1976
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 2015
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 391 ratings — published 2007
Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 372 ratings — published 1996
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 864 ratings — published 1992
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 2,028 ratings — published 1953
The Sign of Jonas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 771 ratings — published 1953
An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.18 — 505 ratings — published 2006
A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.44 — 405 ratings — published 2018
Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons (Volume 229) (Cistercian Studies Series)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 222 ratings — published 2009
Domestic Monastery: Creating Spiritual Life at Home (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,653 ratings — published
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 305 ratings — published 2018
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,387 ratings — published 1955
Silence: A Christian History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 383 ratings — published 2013
The Benedictines in the Middle Ages (Monastic Orders, 3)
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avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 2011
The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 374 ratings — published 2011
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,514 ratings — published 1995
The Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)
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avg rating 4.00 — 100 ratings — published 1980
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 392 ratings — published 2011
The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,811 ratings — published 2001
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 248 ratings — published 2006
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 680 ratings — published 2006
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,275 ratings — published 1981
School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism (New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship)
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avg rating 4.01 — 146 ratings — published 2005
New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today's Church (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monasticism)
avg rating 3.74 — 382 ratings — published 2008
To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monasticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 63 ratings — published 1993
The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 55 ratings — published
The Life of Saint Macrina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 445 ratings — published 380
Matrix (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 70,282 ratings — published 2021
St. Benedict's Rule: An Inclusive Translation and Daily Commentary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.76 — 38 ratings — published
“The Lord vouchsafed us to be in His likeness, but the Lord is so meek and lowly that wert thou to see Him, from much joy thou wouldst want to exclaim, "O Lord, I melt with Thy grace!" but at that moment thou art unable to utter a single word concerning God, for thy soul is transformed from the abundance of the Holy Spirit. Thus it was with St. Seraphim of Sarov - when he beheld the Lord, he was unable to speak.”
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
― A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
“What avails monastic aspirations when, as Mark had said, religious geniuses were born and not made? Could not renouncing the world be a form of self-indulgence? Was not monasticism, in the end, as much an act of cowardice as courage?”
― The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
― The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto