ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due for permission to quote from the following copyrighted source: Mystics and Zen Masters by Thomas Merton. Copyright © 1967 by the Abbey of Gethsemani. Copyright renewed 1995 by Robert Giroux, James Laughlin, and Tommy O’Callaghan as trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors and publishers of the following books in which material in this volume first appeared or from whom permission to reprint has been obtained: The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Introductions East and West, ed. Robert E. Daggy (Greensboro: Unicorn Press); Mystics and Zen Masters, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux — reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis, ed. William H. Shannon (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Further acknowledgment is made to the editors and publishers of all other cited material by Thomas Merton.