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Title QuotedNavigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis
Date (Year/Month/Day)1964/07/18
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QuotationThe Navigatio S. Brendani came yesterday from Boston College. I began it this morning, studying it as a Tract on the monastic life-the myth of peregrinatio, the quest for the impossible island, the earthly paradise the ultimate ideal. As a myth it is, however, filled with a deep truth of its own.
Quotation SourceDancing 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. 128
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