| Author Quoted | Eckhart |
| Title Quoted | Meister Eckhart / Meister Eckhart ; a modern transl. by Raymond Bernard Blakney |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1961/08/06 |
| Imprint | New York : Harper & Row. [c1941] |
| Quotation | Today I read the wonderful sermon on the divine truth in which Eckhart says that as a person about to be struck by a thunderbolt turns toward it, and all the leaves of a tree about to be struck turn toward it, so one in whom the divine birth is to take place turns, without realizing, completely toward it. |
| Journal | 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. 148 |
| Link to Merton's Copy |
https://merton.bellarmine.edu/items/show/18444 |