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January 26, 2012
Do you want ‘spirituality’, mystical experience, inner peace, or do you want God?
"Oh noche que juntaste,
Amado con amada,
Amada en el Amado transformada!"
You must recognize that God is so unlike whatever can be thought or pictured that, when you have got beyond the stage of self-indulgent religiosity, there will be nothing you can securely know or feel. You face a blank: and any attempt to avoid that or shy away from it is a return to playing comfortable religious games. The dark night is God’s attack on religion. --The real question, Saint John [of the Cross] suggests,... - more than 95 theses
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 26, 2012 10:41 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Great link, Gerard, thanks. And as an extra bonus, scroll down for the video of Tom Waits singing Tom Traubert's Blues. That song'll tear your heart out, even if you don't have one.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at January 26, 2012 11:44 AM
It would be a lot easier to believe in god if it wasn't for all the religious non-sense.
Posted by: Mike at January 26, 2012 12:05 PM
You are right on the money with that Traubert link, JWM.
Posted by: vanderleun at January 26, 2012 12:14 PM