I like the way the Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* describes contemplative prayer:
"Come to rest in a naked, blind feeling of your own being, and let go of the conceit that it's yours."*
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* "conceit" is how you spelled "concept" in Middle English
"Come to rest in a naked, blind feeling of your own being, and let go of the conceit that it's yours."*
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* "conceit" is how you spelled "concept" in Middle English
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‘Prayer is not a request for something: it is an expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and causing to exist…Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act, of the Creative Imagination.’
HENRY CORBIN
Art: By Pavel Petrovich Ivanov c. 1953
HENRY CORBIN
Art: By Pavel Petrovich Ivanov c. 1953
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