(Photo by Thomas Merton) In his classic autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), Trappist Monk Thomas Merton (1915-1967) makes fleeting but repeated references to silence, sound and music.  Here are two of them. On Recalling Visiting A Quaker Meeting House In Flushing, Queens As A Boy: “I liked the silence.  It was peaceful.  In it, my shyness began to die down, and… Continue reading