Br. Paul Quenon

About the Author

Br. Paul Quenon is a Trappist monk, photographer, and author (Unquiet Vigil, etc.).

A Week at the Hermitage, by Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.

July 28, 2018By Br. Paul Quenon

A Trappist monk’s sojourn at Thomas Merton’s hermitage

In his heralded poem “Burnt Norton,” T.S. Eliot speaks of “The still point of the turning world,” a near perfect expression of Change and the Changeless. Eliot attended lectures in 1920s London by the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky, featured in this Spring 2019 issue of Parabola; no surprise as the search for that still point is a perennial spiritual quest, one that has inspired seekers from the Buddha to Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and countless others including G.I. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky’s own teacher. Read more>

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Br. Paul Quenon

About the Author

A Week at the Hermitage, by Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong