| Author Quoted | |
| Title Quoted | Cloud of Unknowing |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1947/03/10 |
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| Quotation | Tomorrow I begin the retreat. Yesterday I read a couple of chapters of The Cloud of Unknowing. Every time I pick up anything like that-including especially St. John of the Cross, I feel like the three wise men when they came out of Jerusalem and once more saw the star. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 42 |
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