Spirituality
The Cloud of Unknowing
Anonymous (14th century)
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Set all thoughts and images beneath a 'cloud of forgetting,' and reach toward God through a simple, wordless longing of love.
A medieval English guide to contemplative prayer, teaching that God cannot be reached by thought but only by love, which pierces the 'cloud of unknowing' between the soul and God.
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