Esther de Waal

And the quiet of your own home we're alone on every treat this book takes you one and journey with Thomas Merton for seven days, meditating when the best of his contemplative writings and savoring striking black and white photos taken by Merton himself.

Esther Dewall has written an extraordinarily good book: a transposition of the spirit of St Benedict has expressed in his rule into a guide for for the ordinary man and woman who live right there in the world.

Growing on the Celtic tradition, Esther de Waal paints a world where body and soul, time and eternity, heaven and earth, all come under the sway of God, the mighty Creator. We see how the Celtic tradition spoke as much the heart as to the head.

Esther de Waal is one of today's most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing, and adjusting to a new city environment.