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Date [Source / Page]
Author Quoted
Title Quoted
Quotation by Merton
[link to full quote]
1963/07/00
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 464
]
Marco Pallis
Peaks and Lamas
First of all, I hope you will forgive the typewriter. I do not type well, but my writing is worse, and I am us..
1963/10/04
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 465
]
Marco Pallis
Way and the Mountain
I want to thank you especially for the books you so kindly sent. First of all, your own The Way and the Mounta..
1963/10/04
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 465-66
]
Martin Lings
Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy
And now above all, thank you for the superb book on Ahmad Al 'Alawi [by Martin Lings], superb because of its s..
1964/12/10
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 467-68
]
Jacques Ellul
technological society / Jacques Ellul ; transl. from the French by John Wilkinson ; with an introd. by Robert K. Merton
The old structures, manifestly inadequate in some ways, are being taken away, and instead of being spiritually..
1965/06/17
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 470
]
Frithjof Schuon
Language of the self / Frithjof Schuon ; transl. by Marco Pallis and Macleod Matheson
I have been wanting to tell you how much I have benefited by your translations of Guenon and Schuon. Not only ..
1965/06/17
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 470
]
Rene Guenon
Crisis of the Modern World
I have been wanting to tell you how much I have benefited by your translations of Guenon and Schuon. Not only ..
1966/12/25
[
Ltrs: HGL p. 477
]
Chogyam Trungpa
Born in Tibet
Many thanks for the book Born in Tibet. I have already read your excellent preface, which faces the problems c..
Abbreviations ▲
Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT
The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux
Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer
The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL
The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin
Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq
Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ
The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether
Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC
The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF
Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.