{"product_id":"the-living-bread-9780374515201","title":"The Living Bread","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have been full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eModern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Merton, \u003c\/b\u003e a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual of the twentieth century. His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read thirty years after his untimely death in 1968.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523556413714,"sku":"9780374515201","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd66a4a7-646e-45d6-af51-bf3cc7595071.jpg?v=1731151984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-living-bread-9780374515201","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}