| Author Quoted | Tung-pin Lü |
| Title Quoted | Secret of the golden flower : a Chinese book of life. / Tung-pin Lü ; transl. and expl. by Richard Wilhelm ; with a forew. and comment. by C.G. Jung ; and a part of the Chinese meditation text The book of consciousness and life |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1959/10/04 |
| Imprint | New York : Harcourt. Brace & World, [1962] |
| Quotation | The last month has been too wild. Seeing too many people-but they came. God brought them. Distraction. I am very aware of my lack of inner discipline especially since, in the last week, I have been reading the Secret of the Golden Flower [Tung Pin Lu]. |
| Quotation Source | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 335 |
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