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			| Title Quoted | Cloud of Unknowing | 
		
			| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1947/10/26 | 
		
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			| Quotation | The only thing that gave me any relief today was when I looked in The Cloud of Unknowing for a moment at the chapter on the "lump" theory of the interior life (c. 36?), in other words, vague intuitions left without analysis-"sin"-"God"- all I can do today. | 
		
			| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2,  1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 128 | 
		
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