Thomas Merton At Peace

I am reluctant to finish the "Asian Journals."  There will then be nothing else for him to say.  This seems the best of Thomas Merton.  It came before he could eliminate its spontaneity in the editing of it into ideas and a structure for which this seems the short hand noted.  There is not the wild enthusiasm of some other things he's written, and in its place there seems a greater faith.  More at peace if less at ease.