title: Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (The Journals of Thomas Merton Vol. 6)
author:  Thomas Merton 
description: "It is said that when Emily Dickinson sent her first submission of poems to the essayist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, she included a question for Higginson: "Do these verses breathe?" Higginson's response was presumably affirmative. I imagine a similar question posed by Merton: "Does my journal breathe?" To which I heartily respond, "Yes." -- <i>Anna J. Brown <i>America</i></i><br /><br />"What one finds in Mertons' writings...is this discharge of the authentic self....What shines through in his writings and he never seemed to stop writing... is the luminous humanity of a devotion to the journey." -- <i>Toronta <i>Globe and Mail</i> </i><br /><br />
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  LETTERS
  SELECTED AND EDITED BY WILLIAM H.SHANNON
  
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  Merton,
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  The hidden ground of love
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  The Hidden Ground of Love
  
  THE
  HIDDEN GROUND
  OF LOVE
  The Letters of
  THOMAS MERTON
  on Religious Experience
  and Social Concerns
  selected and edited by
  William H. Shannon
  Farrar • Straus • Giroux
  NEW YORK
  
  Copyright ©
  J 985 by the Merton Legacy Trust
  All rights reserved
  I
  First edition, 1985
  Printed in the United States of America
  Published in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto
  Designed by Cynthia Krupat
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
  Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
  I
  The hidden ground of love.
  1. Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
  2.
  Trappists—United States—Correspondence,
  1
  . Shannon, William Henry.
  77.
  Title.
  BX4705 M542A275 1985
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