Solitude And Service: Spiritual Activism with Sister Helen Prejean, Jonathan Montaldo, Blessing Finca, Adolfo Perez Esquivel & Others

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This program highlights interviews and public presentations inspired by the life and legacy of the renowned spiritual practitioner and contemplative, the late Thomas Merton. Gathered together in a unique forum sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center Foundation, the presenters represent many cultures, vocations, and spiritual faiths. Their stories and shared experience underscores the value of contemplative practice and the importance of deepening our capacity to listen to our own inner wisdom and to others, with compassion, which inform the actions we take in the world on behalf of others. The path of leadership and social action must include time for renewal.

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Participants include: Sister Helen Prejean, Jonathan Montaldo, Blessing Finca, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel.    Other presenters include: Douglas Tanner, Leticia Shahani, and Indira Chakravarti.

Interview Date: 6/10/2000                   Program Number: 2915

Music Included

From Album: Trance Planet Volume 3
Artist: Iky Levy
1996 Triloka Records #69712-4110-2

From Album: Graceful Passages : A Companion for Living and Dying
Artist: Gary Remel Malkin
2000 L.L.C. Companion Arts
Track - Letting Yourself be Loved

From Album: Compassion: Special Message from His Holiness The XIVth Dalai Lama
Artist: Erik Harris with the voice of Thomas Merton
2000 Millenia Music Productions, Michael Fitzpatrick 69712-4110-2