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Written by an anonymous English monk during the late fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing puts forth a method of contemplation that stresses the importance of the understanding to break through the cloud of unknowing that separates God and humanity.

anything, neither corporal nor spiritual.174 The reason is that they have God, in whom is all abundance; whoever has him, indeed, as this book says, needs nothing else in this life.175 We have said that humility is subtly and perfectly contained in this little blind impulse of love as it beats upon this dark cloud of unknowing, with all other things put down and forgotten. The same is to
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