Green Mountain Meandering Missives

After having come across my recent blog posts concerning Spiritual Matters , yesterday (Saturday, February 24, 2024), a neighbor of mine was inspired to graciously gift me with a brand new copy of Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Mountain   (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition; published by HarperOne), a book that I had not previously come across or read before. Have since read both the Introduction to the book written by Robert Giroux as well as A Note to the Reader by William H. Shannon, both of these recommended reading in my opinion. However, given that reading books often comes hard as well as slow on my part, I have  begun listening to an audiobook version of the book available via video on YouTube (view embedded video player, below):

Had ordered three used hard copy books on Quakerism earlier this month (via Thrift Books ) and, after receiving two of the books on Saturday (February 17th), received the third one yesterday (Thursday, the 22nd). The latter book is  Quaker Faith and Practice  (second edition; 1999; fifth edition available, here ): The book of Christian discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. Excerpts from the Introduction (last two paragraphs):  We are seekers but we are also the holders of a precious heritage of discoveries. We, like every generation, must find the Light and Life again for ourselves. Only what we have valued and truly made our own, not by assertion but by lives of faithful commitment, can we hand on to the future. Even then, we must humbly acknowledge that our vision of the truth will, again and again, be amended.   In the Religious Society of Friends we commit ourselves not to words but to a way .  To that, I ...