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Parker Palmer, whose own life is so full of creative contradictions, has found in Merton a brother whose inconsistencies and irregularities invite us to enter them deeply and to discover there, beyond all contradictions, the One who cannot be caught, grasped, or understood but only intuited and recognized with a smile. Parker Palmer knows Merton well because he has an affinity with him. Parker has done many things people do who want to “make it” in the world. But somewhere and somehow he became as crazy as Merton. Parker must have loved Merton as much as he studied him, and must have understood Merton long before he had worked his way through Merton’s bibliography. This essay is short, fresh, and obviously written with a twinkle in the eye. And the greatest surprise of all is that it not only leads us closer to the spirit of Merton, but closer to Him in whose service Merton juggled contradiction and paradox.
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Print Length: 32 pages
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Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications (March 2, 2014)
Publication Date: March 2, 2014
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Language: English
ASIN: B00IQZHK8G
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In a world of dualisms, polarizations, judgments, fragmentation and separation Parker Palmer makes us stop for a brief moment and realize this is not reality, the underlying structure of the universe. It is a both/and world, a world of paradox and our task is to hold the tension and quite possibly come to understand the "other" with compassion. I have read most of Parker's works and this small pamphlet may be his finest. It is particularly valuable in our troubling, violent times.
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