| Author Quoted | Erich Fromm |
| Title Quoted | Heart of Man: Its Genious for Good and Evil |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/04/27 |
| Imprint | New York : Harpers & Row. 1964 |
| Quotation | The other day I finished your Heart of Man and found much good in this expansion of the former short work. [note 38: The short work was the booklet, referred to above, War Within Man. Fromm incorporated this material into The Heart of Man] Most helpful. Am temporarily not sleeping in the hermitage, as I am recovering from an operation for cervical disk. But I work and meditate there in the daytime when possible. Be sure that I am not exaggerating this project or being fanatical about it; but I need this delving into reality, this sweating out of illusions and desires "¦ |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 322 |
| Letter to | Erich Fromm |
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