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A strange thing to read someone's private journal entries, stranger still that the journal was written in the weeks leading up to that person's abrupt death, and strangest of all to rate that journal with "five stars" — or any amount of stars.
On December 4, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, six days before he died, Thomas Merton wrote: "...I know and have seen what I was obscurely looking for. I don't know what else remains but I have now seen and I have pierced through the surface and have got beyond the shadow and the disguise."
On December 6, in Singapore, he wrote: "But the journey is only begun. Some of the places I really wanted to see from the beginning have not yet been touched."
Last recorded words of Thomas Merton, from a lecture given in Bangkok a few hours before his death: "So I will disappear."
On December 4, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, six days before he died, Thomas Merton wrote: "...I know and have seen what I was obscurely looking for. I don't know what else remains but I have now seen and I have pierced through the surface and have got beyond the shadow and the disguise."
On December 6, in Singapore, he wrote: "But the journey is only begun. Some of the places I really wanted to see from the beginning have not yet been touched."
Last recorded words of Thomas Merton, from a lecture given in Bangkok a few hours before his death: "So I will disappear."
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