* When I refer to this exercise (practice) as a darkness or a cloud, I don’t want you to imagine the darkness…inside your house at night when you blow out a candle;…When I say ‘darkness’, I mean the absence of knowing. Whatever you don’t know and whatever you’ve forgotten are ‘dark’ to you because you don’t see them…For the same reason, by ‘cloud’ I don’t mean a cloud in the sky but a cloud of unknowing between you and God. - Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing, 14C
* Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
* Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
* In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.
- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, “East Coker”