| Author Quoted | Eckhart |
| Title Quoted | Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/04/10 |
| Imprint | New York : Harper & Row. [c1941] |
| Quotation | The best thing of all was lying reading Eckhart, or sitting up, when I finally could, copying sentences from the sermons that I can use if I write on him. It was this that saved me, and when I got back to the hermitage last evening to say the Easter offices everything else drained off and Eckhart remained as real. The rest was like something I had imagined. |
| Journal | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 38 |
| Link to Merton's Copy |
https://merton.bellarmine.edu/items/show/18444 |