The Cloud Of Unknowing by Anonymous
A 14th-century guide to contemplative prayer that urges seekers to approach God beyond concepts, resting in a simple, loving intention rather than analysis. It counsels setting aside all created things and thoughts into a figurative cloud of forgetting and steadily lifting a single prayer-word as a dart of longing love toward the divine mystery, while warning against curiosity, pride, and spiritual illusions. Emphasizing humility, detachment, and charity, it offers practical direction for novices on handling distraction and temptation and presents an apophatic path where God is encountered not by intellect but by love.
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- Published
- 1375
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 160–240
- Original Language
- Middle english
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- Alternate Titles
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