| Author Quoted | |
| Title Quoted | Dhammapada |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1959/11/02 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Oxfort University Press. 1950 |
| Quotation | A lovely afternoon full of noise. Reading after dinner-snatches from the Dhammapada-I thought of this clear sky and how it must be like a Mexican sky. |
| Journal | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 338 |
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