The Seven Storey Mountain
About This Book
Merton's autobiography, written in the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani at the age of thirty, traces his journey from a rootless, pleasure-seeking intellectual through his conversion to Catholicism and eventual entry into monastic life. Published in 1948, it became an immediate bestseller and is widely regarded as one of the great spiritual autobiographies of the 20th century — frank about Merton's flaws and honest about the cost and the joy of the contemplative vocation.
What You'll Learn
The contemplative life is not an escape from the world but a more radical engagement with ultimate reality — the monk withdraws from the world's distractions to attend to what is most real. Sin, for Merton, is not primarily a moral category but an ontological one — the refusal to be what God created you to be. Conversion is not a single event but an ongoing deepening — a spiral that returns again and again to the same question: Who am I?
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