| Author Quoted | Eckhart |
| Title Quoted | Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/07/04 |
| Imprint | New York : Harper & Row. [c1941] |
| Quotation | I am becoming entranced with Eckhart: I have been won by the brevity, the incisiveness of his sermons, his way of piercing straight to the heart of the inner life, the awakened spark, the creative and redeeming word, God born in us. He is a great man who was pulled down by little men who thought they could destroy him. Who thought they could take him to Avignon and have him ruined and indeed he was ruined in 28 propositions which did not altogether resemble his joy and his energy and his freedom, but which could be brought to coincide with words he had uttered. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 137 |
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