35.
Contemplative Prayer, 118.
36.
Merton, Thomas. The Ascent to Truth. London. Hollis and Carter, 1951, p. 206.
37.
Ibid., 10.
38.
Ср. 1 Ин 4, 20.
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Merton, Thomas. No Man is an Island. London. Hollis and Carter, 1955, p. 61.
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Contemplation in a World of Action, 71ff. См. также: Thomas Merton «The Inner Experience» Cistercian Studies 19 (1984), p. 269.
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Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy. New York. Simon and Schuster, 1984.
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Contemplative Prayer, 27-28.
44.
Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1975, p. 181.
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Bailey, Raymond. Thomas Merton on Mysticism. Garden City, New York. Doubleday Image Books, 1976, pp. 142-143.
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Hawker, B.H. «Twice Twenty-seven Plus Ten». Cistercian Studies 14 (1979), pp. 190-192.
47.
Spiritual Direction and Meditation, 94.
48.
Thomas Merton on Prayer, 138.
49.
«A Dark and Empty Way», 284.
50.
Merton, Thomas. The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. London. Sheldon Press, 1978, p. 341.
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