Dance of a Fallen Monk: A Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385484077)

A nationally syndicated columnist on religious issues delivers a penetrating and poignant account of how he learned to hear the music of life--and dance to its joyous beat.

"In sharing his story, Fowler succeeds in touching us." --People

After almost twenty years of strict celibacy and silence as a Trappist monk and priest, George Fowler decided reluctantly to leave the Catholic Church at the age of forty in search of a more meaningful spiritual life. In rejecting the strictures of monastery life, and the constraints imposed on him by the Catholic Church, Fowler came to realize that the inner serenity and spiritual peace he spent his life searching for could only be found "while uproariously ignoring the greater part of what the churches thump their Book about."

Author: George Fowler
ISBN-10: 0385484070
ISBN-13: 9780385484077
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1996
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.08w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/20/1996