| Author Quoted | Anselmus of Canterbury |
| Title Quoted | Opera Omnia / ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt o.s.b. |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/02/14 |
| Imprint | Edinburg : [s.n.]. 1951 |
| Quotation | "Adeo namque vilis mens mea quasi quadam naturali arctatur angustia bonaeque voluntatis languet imbecilitate, ut uni quamlibet parvae curae ceteris exclusis tota non sufficiat, et cuislibet oneris tentationisque gravedine victa succumbat." ["My poor mind is, as it were, shut up by some natural anguish and languishes in the weakness of good will, so that my entire mind does not suffice, all other things being neglected, even for those matters of small moment, and my mind has succumbed to the pressure of every burden and temptation."] (Anselm, Epistle 50, [Schmitt] p. 163) I feel the same "naturalis angustia" ["natural tension"], not that I am as busy as Anselm. Fasting clears the head and lessens the angustia, also brings order into one's life. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 76-77 |
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