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Article: BEYOND THE WALLS: MONASTIC WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY LIFE.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 21, 2000
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BEYOND THE WALLS: MONASTIC WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY LIFE By Paul Wilkes Doubleday, 244 pages, $21
Monthly visits to Carolina monastery plant seeds for transformation
Monastic life is making a book-publishing comeback. We live in a time that prizes virtually everything monastic life teaches us to abhor: individualism, materialism, sensual gratification, speed and form above substance. Meanwhile, everyday pressures take their toll, wear us down, send us into that spiritual desert from which it can be difficult to exit. Our search for serenity and endless desire to embrace the divine, while sometimes buried, rests at the core of our soul. No wonder, then, when ...