| Author Quoted | Søren Kierkegaard |
| Title Quoted | Present Age |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1965/07/25 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1846I |
| Quotation | Reading [Søren] Kierkegaard-selections from The Present Age. Very fine and completely prophetic. One of the best and in some sense most hopeful treatments of the individual in mass-society. "It is in fact through error that the individual is given access to the highest if he courageously drinks it"¦" The communication of the "cosmic" in the naked exposure of the individual, without mediation, to "pure humanity." (Can lead to liberation in naked exposure to word of God.) With regard to myself I seek only to pay this high price (far from doing it, we are trained in this!!). And for others-not to "help" them to escape it. |
| 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. 275 |
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