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| Original Title: | The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery |
| ISBN: | 0232521433 (ISBN13: 9780232521436) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Paperback | Pages: 222 pages Rating: 4.32 | 1057 Users | 79 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery |
| Author | : | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 222 pages |
| Published | : | September 1995 by Darton, Longman & Todd (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Spirituality. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Theology. Christianity |
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The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery is Henri Nouwen's journal of his seven-month stay in the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York. His reflections on daily life with the Trappists are funny, wise, and often profound--resembling Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk, but a bit less thematically structured and more down to earth. Nouwen's goal is simply to record what it's like to pass the time in a cloistered community. He spends part of his stay there reading Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which helps awaken a hunger for a richer experience of life that he subsequently satisfies by learning to slow down. In his first week at the monastery, Nouwen writes, "I have so many ideas I want to write about, so many books I want to read, so many skills I want to learn--motorcycle maintenance is now one of them--and so many things I want to say to others now or later, that I do not SEE that God is all around me and that I am always trying to see what is ahead, overlooking him who is so close." Then, looking forward to being planted in one place among the Trappists, he writes, "Maybe I need to get stuck," to learn to see God. He does, and he does. --Michael Joseph GrossRating Based On Books The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
Ratings: 4.32 From 1057 Users | 79 ReviewsRate Based On Books The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
A beautiful, vulnerable and gentle book about a man discovering how to find a deeper spiritual life.People expect too much from speaking, too little from silence. . . p. 134I first heard of Henry Nouwen via quotations in our church in Alberta. His thoughts and skill withwords drew me to read more. I took my time with this book, as I think is fitting. It takes time to let these lessons and ideas find purchase in your heart and mind. I highly recommend it for spiritual guidance. It would be ideal reading for the Lenten season. Here are a few quotations which especially spoke to me. (I realize
Inspiring and is very human in its discovery of himself. Thoroughly enjoyable.
I read this book many years ago and rereading it now, i realise it still speaks to me.
This is a wonderful story of life in a Trappist monastery. Although only living there for seven months, Henri is brutally honest in his writing and faces his feelings of inadequacy, anger, confusion, and moodiness. It is refreshing to experience his struggles and how to become a better person. He learns a lot and this book is full of good advice and uplifting quotes and verse. Keep it simple- that seems to be the building block of their lives.My favorite line is "God is in the gentle breeze with
I think this is the fourth or fifth time, I've read this very honest and self-effacing book which has earned its classic status in Christian spirituality. This time around Nouwen's struggle with maintaining a good attitude while doing physical work or, really, anything other than just reading and thinking resonated with me, largely because I recognize the same struggle in me. Well worth reading and re-reading.
This is the second time I have read this book (it is that good). In the last chapter Nouwen shares a reflection on teaching spirituality from the inside. He uses the image of stained glass, saying that to really appreciate it a student must be lead inside to see the sun shining through the windows. I think Nouwen accomplishes this task here. The reader is offered a raw inside look at 7 intensely spiritual months in Nouwens life. You are left with the impression that you experienced some of his
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