To come to be what you are not
you must go by a way in which you are not.
– St John of the Cross
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Happy is that person whom Truth itself teaches, not by figures of speech and eloquent language, but as it is in itself. When the eternal Word speaks we are set free from countless theories and conjectures. All things spring from this one Word and all things speak of one Word, and this Word is … Continue reading
God’s speech is the effect He produces in the soul. … it wounds the soul with the tenderness of God’s life, and it wounds and stirs it so deeply as to make it dissolve in love… … “As soon as He spoke my soul melted”. … The divine substance absorbs the soul in itself. … Continue reading
existential contingency
This imperfect state of incompleteness, isolation and separation from the goal is the basic source of our existential anguish – anguish that arises not because of our existence but because of our separated existence. Hence the anguish running through the writings of the mystics and reflected in the cry of St. John of the Cross: … Continue reading existential contingency
no longer knew anything
In the inner wine cellar I drank of my Beloved, and when I went abroad Through all this valley I no longer knew anything, And lost the herd which I was following. That elevation and immersion of the mind in God, in which … Continue reading no longer knew anything
