| Author Quoted | Jacques Maritain |
| Title Quoted | paysan de la Garonne : un vieux laîc s'interroge à propos du temps present |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/11/18 |
| Imprint | Paris : Desclee de Brouwer. 1966 |
| Quotation | Jacques Maritain was here in October and we had a fine visit. He is very much a hermit now, and his latest book has added a hermit voice to the contemporary harmony (or disharmony). Le Paysan de la Garonne is I think very fine. I think you would like it. I have heard from your friend Dom Gregory in Tanzania and will write to him soon. Also we had a true Sufi master from Algeria here. A most remarkable person. It was like meeting a Desert Father or someone out of the Bible. He invited me to come and talk to his disciples in Algeria but I told him this would be quite impossible. Yet I would love to talk to them in fact, and also to see some monasteries in Africa. But I suppose that will never be allowed. No matter. The woods are all I need. |
| Quotation Source | The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction.; Selected and edited by Brother Patrick Hart. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1990, p. 322 |
| Letter to | Dom Jean Leclercq, o.s.b. |
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