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The cloud of unknowing

A 14th-century Christian mystical text that teaches a form of prayer beyond words and concepts—a surrendered unknowing that approaches God not through thought but through love and naked intent. The Cloud teaches that the most direct path to the sacred is sometimes to stop trying to understand it.

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