The Cloud of Unknowing

This anonymous medieval Christian text is a guide to contemplative prayer centered on loving union with God beyond concepts and images. Historically one of the great works of English mystical literature, it instructs readers in a disciplined practice of interior silence, humility, and affective contemplation.

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