Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing is a guide to contemplative life that finds holiness at a level deeper than physical experience and beyond language or image. It offers an approach to contemplative life that finds holiness at a level deeper than physical experience and beyond language or image. The author advises placing all thought and mental imagery behind a metaphorical cloud of forgetting while seeking to love the divine. Seekers can thus attain an inner silence, where they may be still and know the sacred.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 25 May 2018
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

The nature of reality and mysticism is explored in this text, which begins with the individual struggle toward a clear vision and culminates in a transformed consciousness. The author, an unknown fourteenth-century priest, believed that a cloud of unknowing separates people from God and that this cloud cannot be penetrated by intellect but only by love. The Cloud of Unknowing offers an approach to contemplative life that finds holiness at a level deeper than physical experience and beyond language or image. The author advises placing all thought and mental imagery behind a metaphorical cloud of forgetting while seeking to love the divine. Hidden from the infinite consciousness by a cloud of unknowing, divine love can be reached through monologistic prayer, a single-word prayer that assists in abandoning all extraneous thought. Seekers can thus attain an inner silence, where they may be still and know the sacred. The author's spiritual gifts, combined with his humorous and straightforward approach, offer a view of divinity that never loses the common touch. Written in everyday language and edited by a popular authority on mysticism, this venerable work can be understood and appreciated by any reader. Includes a new Introduction by Kim Boykin, author of Zen for Christians.

Weight: 194g
Dimension: 128 x 204 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780486824277