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but invites us to enter into an authentic relationship of intimacy and devotion-by surrendering to love

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psychologist Robert Wicks emboldens readers to face life's difficulties--the "dragons" that escape from the cave

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The book is divided into three short chapters based on a metaphysics of love: we are born out of divine love

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works gift but invites us to enterPaperback Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focused on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medieval mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and