Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom- The Journal of Thomas Merton, Vol. 6
"It is said that when Emily Dickinson sent her first submission of poems to the essayist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, she included a question for Higginson: "Do these verses breathe?" Higginson's response was presumably affirmative. I imagine a similar question posed by Merton: "Does my journal breathe?" To which I heartily respond, "Yes."  --Anna J. BrownAmerica"What one finds in Mertons' writings...is this discharge of the authentic self....What shines through in his writings  and he never seemed to stop writing... is the luminous humanity of a devotion to the journey."  --TorontaGlobe and Mail"Delightful . . . brilliant social, political and personal commentaries." --New York Times Book Review"It has often been said that the world-renowned Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton was a man of paradox. . . . Now, [this] volume of Merton's journals adds greater detail to another, and perhaps his most surprising, paradox: that this monk and Roman Catholic priest had what he called an 'affair' with a student nurse in Louisville over six months in 1966." --Lexington Herald Leader"When all the journals are published, it is likely that they will take a place with the famous journals of Henry David Thoreau, G. M. Hopkins, Edmund Wilson, and perhaps be seen as an American version of St. Augustine'sConfessions." --Catholic News Service--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.