Reading The Seven Storey Mountain | Alexandria
Read The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. Rejecting worldly success at its peak, Merton's radical path from hedonistic Columbia intellectual to Trappist monk reveals an urgent truth: genuine self-discovery requires getting lost first. His counterintuitive insight? True solitude breeds deeper connection. In our hyper-networked era, his call to productive silence has never been more revolutionary.