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• “An Author is Not Famous Until After He Dies”

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  I don’t know who said “An author is not famous until after he (or she) dies,” but I do believe there is some truth to it. Last night I began reading Jean-Pierre de Caussade’s Abandonment to Divine Providence . de Caussade was a French Jesuit who lived from 1675 to 1751, and who gained some renown in his ...
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• Humility and Love

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  I had a chat with my friend Paco yesterday. Paco is a Lay Cistercian and shares my love of the contemplative life. He was my “angel” (my mentor/ “big brother”) during my novitiate as a Lay Cistercian, so we’ve become pretty good friends. I asked Paco to read the unedited manuscript of The Big Book of ...
  1 week ago

• Quote for the Day

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  The hound that runs after the hare only because he sees the other hounds running will rest when he is tired, or go home again. But if he runs because he’s seen the hare, he won’t stop, however tired he gets, until he has caught it. — Walter Hilton, The Stairway of Perfection
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• Quote for the Day

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  Goodness of will in a person is God’s infused love, with which a person practices the things of God and all the virtues. Goodness of will is God’s grace and our own supernatural life, with which we struggle against every sin and win the victory. United with God’s grace, a good will sets us free, raising us up ...
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• Vision

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  Today is the feast day of Juan Diego: the visionary of Mexico who received the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in1531. In Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness , Evelyn Underhill has a chapter called “Voices and Visions.” Julian of Norwich was a visionary. So was Birgitta of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Eucharistic Prayer of John Ruusbroec

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  The following prayer comes from the 14th century Flemish mystic John Ruusbroec, also known as John Ruysbroeck. I think it’s one of the loveliest examples of eucharistic spirituality that I have ever come across. It comes from his work called “A Mirror of Eternal Blessedness” and this translation is taken from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two More Guitar Videos

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  If you enjoyed the video of “Here Comes the Sun” that I posted the other day , here are two more from my friend Sean Robert Ramuno — especially for all you Allman Brothers and Moody Blues fans. Happy listening!
  2 weeks ago

• Prayer

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 516
  I’m currently reading three books on prayer: Prayer: Conversing with God by Rosalind Rinker. A classic evangelical book from the 1950s about developing greater intimacy and faith in God through unscripted, conversational prayer. Praying Our Experiences by Joseph F. Schmidt. A guide to discerning the prayerful ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is God ‘A Recovering Practitioner of Violence’?

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 505
  "Recovering? Who said I was recovering?" I was just watching some sessions from 2004’s Emerging Theological Conversation that I attended at All Souls PCA Church in Decatur with Jasmin and Seth in the fall of 2004 – some five years ago. Walter Brueggemann was the presenting scholar, and Brian McLaren , ...
  4 weeks ago

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