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1 This essay is the translation of a lecture delivered by the author of this volume at the I International Thomas Merton Conference celebrated at the International Center of Mystical Studies – City of Avila (Spain) in October 2006. It was published in a bilingual edition of the Conference Proceedings entitled Seeds of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Message, ed. Fernando Beltran Llavador and Paul M. Pearson (Ávila: Ediciones CISTERCIUM-CIEM, 2006), pp. 61-79.
2 Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert (New York: New Directions, 1960), p. 8.
3 The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New York: New Directions, 1977), pp. 319-20. There is a third part to this poem in Collected Poems that is omitted here.
4 Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 1961), p. 295.
5 Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1948), p. 419. According to Virginia Randall, one of the major themes in Merton’s poetry is precisely “the mystery of the Transcendent Self, the No-One who has gone beyond the individual self, and who is, consequently united with all.” Virginia F. Randall, “The Quest for the Transcendent Self: The Buddhist-Christian Merger in Thomas Merton’s Poetry,” Cithara, 17. 1 (November 1977), pp. 17-18.