When 'The Seven Storey Mountain' was first published, Merton was hailed as a new, contemporary spiritual voice and became one of the most popular and successful writers and commentators on modern religion and spirituality. But althoughMerton wrote over forty books on the importance of reflection and prayer in our lives, we have known little about Merton's own 'way of prayer'. This book fully explores the inner life of perhaps the best-known writer on prayer of the twentieth century.