Author: Thomas Merton

Cited by

• Desmond Zhicheng-Mingde Kon (1)
  • IN: Babel via Negativa (2015) Poetry, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The things about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them, because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there.
    FROM: Zen and the Birds of Appetite, (1968), Book, US
• Benjamin Obler (1)
  • IN: Javascotia (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.
    FROM: No Man is an Island, (1955), Book, US