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Article: Going East with Merton: forty years later-and coming West with Parmahansa Yogananda today.(Thomas Merton)(Report)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
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- March 1, 2009
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As the plane bearing him to Asia lifted off in October of 1968, Thomas Merton entered into his journal "I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny ... may I not come back without having settled the great affair ... I am going home, to the home where I have never been in this body." (1) The "great affair" was his need to deepen the mysterious thoughts, feelings, prayerful yearnings, as well as the theological implications which seemed to be common to more and more students of religion as the twentieth century unfolded. He sought a deeper understanding of the sameness versus the differences between the fundamental Eastern and Western concepts ...
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Article: Thomas Merton
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...Thomas Merton Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Roman Catholic writer, was a Trappist monk, social critic, and spiritual guide. Thomas Merton was born in Prades, France, on January 31, 1915, the first ...
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