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The Cloud of Unknowing

Author : William Johnston
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0307809056
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by William Johnston and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God. Written in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious thinkers as St. John of the Cross and Teilhard de Chardin, as well as countless others in search of God. Offering a practical guide to the life of contemplation, the author explains that ordinary thoughts and earthly concepts must be buried beneath a “cloud of forgetting,” while our love must rise toward a God hidden in the “cloud of unknowing.” THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING, also included in this volume, is a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and a consciousness only of the divine. William Johnston, an authority on fourteenth-century mysticism and spirituality, provides an accessible discussion of the works, detailing what is known about the history of the texts and their author. In a new foreword, Huston Smith draws on his extensive knowledge of the varieties of religious experience to illuminate the relevance of these works for contemporary readers.

The Cloud of Unknowing

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465541071
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141907592
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine.

The Cloud of Unknowing

Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547538154
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Thomas H. Cook and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping” mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness (Entertainment Weekly). David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David’s sister Diana for her superior intelligence. When the Old Man died, David thought the madness had finally died with him. But the Sears family was not through with its troubles. The drowning of Diana’s mentally ill son has been ruled a tragic “misadventure,” a conclusion she refuses to accept. After hastily divorcing her husband, she sets out to prove his culpability. Her increasingly manic behavior is becoming hard for David to ignore. He finds himself afraid for his own family’s safety—and choosing his words carefully when answering the detective. Edgar Award–winning author Thomas H. Cook explores the power of blood to define us, bind us, and sometimes destroy us, in a novel of “consuming suspense almost too concentrated to bear” (New York Daily News). “So spare and precise, it feels as if it has been chiseled in stone with something like a surgical instrument.” —Joyce Carol Oates “What’s at stake isn’t so much the resolution of a mystery as the integrity of a family.” —Time Out New York

The Heart of Centering Prayer

Author : Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611803144
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Centering Prayer written by Cynthia Bourgeault and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of The Wisdom Jesus and The Meaning of Mary Magdalene demystifies the popular Christian meditation method rooted in contemplative prayer Centering Prayer is the path to a wonderful and radical new way of seeing the world. It is not, as is sometimes thought, simply an act of devotional piety, nor is it simply a Christianized form of other meditation methods. Cynthia Bourgeault here cuts through the misconceptions to show that Centering Prayer is in fact a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. She provides a practical, complete course in the practice and then goes deeper to analyze what actually happens in Centering Prayer: the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that makes possible the perception of nonduality. With this understanding in place, she then takes us on a journey through one of the sources of the practice, the Christian contemplative classic The Cloud of Unknowing, revealing it to be among the earliest Christian explorations of the phenomenology of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault’s illumination of the Centering Prayer path provides compelling evidence of how important the practice has become in the half-century since it first arose among American Trappist monks, and of its maturation and refinement over the ensuing years of sincere study and practice. It will resonate with beginners on the Centering Prayer path as well as with seasoned practitioners.

The Cloud of Unknowing

Author : Mimi Lipson
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
ISBN 13 : 1891241591
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Mimi Lipson and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, tough, and heartbreaking — often all at once — Mimi Lipson’s debut collection is a grand tour of bars, diners, bus stations, dog parks, hardcore clubs, vacant lots, and other places that draw people whose inner lives are richer than their wallets. Lipson’s alter ego, the sharp-tongued and sharp-eyed Kitty, appears in a variety of guises: as a seven-year-old on a Florida vacation scammed by her roguish father, as a college student who receives a stunningly crucial education outside the classroom, as a passenger whose life changes on a cross-country bus. After meeting her parents, her brother, her friends and coworkers, we are introduced to Isaac, the sui generis man-child who becomes both her lover and her charge, a human roller-coaster who swings her between delight, exasperation, and mortal peril. Like a dinner composed of appetizers, Lipson’s book is very nearly a novel, in mosaic form, without all the boring parts. Her wit is as sharp as a serpent’s tooth, her sentences as percussively satisfying as billiard balls clicking into the pocket.

The Pursuit of Wisdom and Other Works

Author : Author of The cloud of unknowing
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809129720
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Wisdom and Other Works written by Author of The cloud of unknowing and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers six works by an anonymous fourteenth century mystic concerning spiritual life and faith.

The Cloud of Unknowing

Author : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
Publisher : New City Press
ISBN 13 : 1565482808
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who turn to spiritual classics for guidance and inspiration often find their style daunting. The original texts still have much to offer but their diction and idiom, chosen for another era and audience, pose an obstacle to many contemporary readers. The Cloud of Unknowing for Everyone is the latest in a series that aims to make some of the greatest Christian teachers accessible to all. The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown fourteenth century author, points out that all we can know of God is slight; God in Godself is unknowable to our limited intellect and thought. Only love can bridge the gap, love like an arrow of longing simple, straightforward and direct. All who feel called to a life of prayer will be captivated by the balanced, precise and practical insights of The Cloud. In her retelling of this classic, Obbard invites contemporary readers to join previous generations who have discovered the riches of this classic text.

Cloud of the Impossible

Author : Catherine Keller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538707
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Cloud of the Impossible written by Catherine Keller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertainty, of indeterminate and interdependent outcomes, possibly catastrophic. Yet the connectivity and collectivity of social movements, of the fragile, unlikely webs of an alternative notion of existence, keep materializing--a haunting hope, densely entangled, suggesting a more convivial, relational world. Catherine Keller brings process, feminist, and ecopolitical theologies into transdisciplinary conversation with continental philosophy, the quantum entanglements of a "participatory universe," and the writings of Nicholas of Cusa, Walt Whitman, A. N. Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and Judith Butler, to develop a "theopoetics of nonseparable difference." Global movements, personal embroilments, religious diversity, the inextricable relations of humans and nonhumans--these phenomena, in their unsettling togetherness, are exceeding our capacity to know and manage. By staging a series of encounters between the nonseparable and the nonknowable, Keller shows what can be born from our cloudiest entanglement.

The Cloud of Unknowing Distilled

Author : Daniel London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949643909
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing Distilled written by Daniel London and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe that God is the self-giving Love that moves the sun and other stars as well as the Love that is closer to you than your very breath? If not, please stop reading altogether. If so, then proceed... As Daniel London's concise introduction explains, The Cloud of Unknowing teaches us that God is not a thought or an idea, but a loving presence to be encountered in the simplicity of silence. Whether you have treasured this classic text for years or are coming to it for the first time, you will find something here that speaks to your soul and invites you more deeply into the life of prayer. -Arthur Holder, PhD, Professor of Christian Spirituality, Graduate Theological Union, editor of Christian Spirituality: The Classics and The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality Like meeting an old friend after an absence and immediately being on intimate terms again, I met the essence of the beloved author of "the Cloud." This devotional brought me to tears and to belly laughs with that familiar wisdom and wink of slyness I have loved throughout my life. Daniel DeForest London has indeed distilled the author's authentic voice. -Suzanne Guthrie, author of Praying the Hours and Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer

The Way of Unknowing

Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848254164
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Unknowing written by John Main and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of this classic collection of writings by John Main, exploring the benefits of silent prayer and Christian meditation

Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030780786X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown written by Alan Watts and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of nineteen essays, Alan Watts ("a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest" —Deepak Chopra) ruminates on the philosophy of nature, ecology, aesthetics, religion, and metaphysics. Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s meditation on the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, known in Chinese as the Tao. Embracing a form of contemplative meditation that allows us to stop analyzing our experiences and start living in to them, the book explores themes such as the natural world, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, the nature of ecstasy, and much more.

The Complete Cloud of Unknowing

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Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612617174
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Cloud of Unknowing written by and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the Christian mystical tradition is the inspired work of the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing. Rich with insights and perceptions of the obscurity and “unknowability” of God, this work reveals God as being on an entirely different plane of existence from human beings—so different that time-bound human language is inadequate to describe God exhaustively or accurately. Intellect and emotion both fail in seeking God, who can only be encountered by rejecting all common earthly means in a “cloud of forgetting” and the discovery of Godself in the dark “cloud of unknowing” that can be pierced only with a “lance of longing love.” Now, we finally have a translation that captures all of this beauty and complexity, without minimizing the nuances, all of which are explained with extensive introductions and accompanying notes. "If I could keep with me only two books and a journal, this book would be one of the books. As far as I’m concerned it’s the most important book (and among the most influential) on Christian prayer in the last two millennia. I'm delighted to endorse this fine new translation and commentary.”—The Rev. Dr. Chris Neufeld-Erdman, University Presbyterian Church, Fresno, CA , author of Beyond Chaos: Living the Christian Family in a World Like Ours and Returning to the Center: Living Prayer in a Distracting World "The Complete Cloud of Unknowing includes two classics of medieval Christian contemplative spirituality — essential reading for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship with God through the practice of silent prayer. They are rich texts, full of nuanced wisdom that often gets lost in modern translations. Father John-Julian has captured the beauty, humor and literary elegance of the original versions, but also has supplemented his translation with detailed notes that convey the subtle spiritual insight that makes these works required reading. I'm excited about this book — it's a title I will recommend both to beginners and to longstanding students of The Cloud.” —Carl McColman, author of Answering the Contemplative Call and The Lion, the Mouse and the Dawn Treader

The Complete Julian

Author : Fr. John Julian
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612612555
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Julian written by Fr. John Julian and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most engaging and complete collection available of this 14th century English mystic The Revelations of Julian of Norwich is the first book written in English by a woman – in this case, by a 14th century recluse who recounts the poignant, subtle, and radical insights granted to her in sixteen visions of the crucified Christ as she lay on what was believed to be her deathbed. Julian's miraculous recovery from that illness then led to twenty more years of reflection and contemplation on those revelations and finally to her writing a detailed account of her mystical experience. Her work – in the same Middle English as her contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer – is dense, deeply intuitive, and theologically complex. The Complete Julian is the first book to offer a modern translation of all of Julian's writings (including her complete Revelations), a complete analysis of her work, as well as original historical, religious, and personal background material that helps the reader comprehend the depth and profundity of her life and work. "[Julian's Revelations] may well be the most important work of Christian reflection in the English language." — Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury

A Book Of Contemplation The Which Is Called The Cloud Of Unknowing, In The Which A Soul Is Oned With God

Author : HTTP //Evelynunderhill Org/ Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021016225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Book Of Contemplation The Which Is Called The Cloud Of Unknowing, In The Which A Soul Is Oned With God written by HTTP //Evelynunderhill Org/ Evelyn Underhill and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work on Christian mysticism is a guidebook for contemplatives seeking to deepen their relationship with God. Written in the 14th century by an unknown author, The Cloud of Unknowing emphasizes the importance of transcending the limitations of the rational mind in order to experience the divine presence. This edition is translated and introduced by renowned spiritual author Evelyn Underhill, and includes her insightful commentary on the text. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Roman Verostko and the Cloud of Unknowing

Author : Grant D. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578213897
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Roman Verostko and the Cloud of Unknowing written by Grant D. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Verostko (b. 1929), an artist, humanist, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design Professor Emeritus, is a key figure in the development of generative, algorithmic art. Unlike many of his contemporaries who came from engineering and computer science backgrounds, Verostko was formerly a Benedictine monk at Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and a professionally-trained painter and scholar before he started to work with electronic media, circuit logic, and computer languages.Published to coincide with a major retrospective of Verostko's long career, this volume features nearly seventy color reproductions, encompassing his pre-algorist work that ranges from geometric forms and spontaneous brushstrokes to highly imaginative personal drawings, pen and brush plotter drawings, early screen/video pieces, electronic machines, mural projects, artist books, and newer editioned prints. Rather than a strict chronological retrospective, the catalog is organized around major themes that appear throughout Verostko's work, such as his search for an art of pure form, his interest in logic, his merging of Eastern and Western aesthetics and philosophy, and his understanding of his home "Pathway Studio" as a modern day electronic scriptorium.Created in close collaboration with the artist, the 168-page exhibition catalog is designed by MCAD alumni Michael and Suzanne Welch of Abzorb Design and features essays by leading scholars in the field of digital art: Christiane Paul (professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School and adjunct curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art); Grant D. Taylor (professor of Art History at Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania); and Bruce Wands (former director, New York Digital Salon and chair of the MFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts).

Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition

Author : Thomas Keating
Publisher : Continuum
ISBN 13 : 9780826418890
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition written by Thomas Keating and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2006-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 20th anniversary edition of Continuum's best-selling spiritual classic, which has sold over half a million in the English language and has appeared in 10 foreign-language editions (Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesia, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese). The new edition consists of a substantial new preface, an expanded glossary, some changes in terminology, and a reordering of several chapters.