It is good to know that this very Catholic writer found much to learn in other religions. ( )

I love Thomas Merton. ( )

Fascinating stuff. It takes longer to read the footnotes than the journal entries. Kind of a crash course in Asian religion and philosophy, as well as a who's who of both Eastern and Western religious and academics both at the time of Merton's writing and historically. Of course, it is in the form of notes, so it isn't exhaustive, but it certainly is interesting. ( )

I'm pretty much always kind of reading this. It's huge and nice to just dip in and out.

Thought provoking ( )