Seeing That Paradise Begins Now

Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton gently leads participants on a journey toward spiritual transformation and a more contemplative and peace-filled life. Each eight-session booklet provides an introduction to Merton and contemplative living through prayers, readings from Merton and other spiritual masters, and questions for small group dialogue. This eighth and final book of the Bridges series helps participants learn to see that we live in paradise here and now whenever we choose to love and embrace our inexhaustible communion with God and all creation. Opening the ever-present gates to paradise frees us to live at peace and entices those around us to do the same.