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Hello InlightWithout seeking mysticism, mysticism arrives.
The spirit of your comment made me think of St. John’s sketch of “The Ascent of Mount Carmel” . . . the nada in which asceticism and mysticism are joined:
St. John of the Cross:
Sirach2 - Your post about St. Teresa and the “informal acquaintences” who helped her along the way brought a smile to my heart.To reach satisfaction in all desire satisfaction in nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing.
To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.
Now that I no longer desire them, I have them all without desire
To come to enjoy what you have not you must go by a way in which you enjoy not.
To come to the knowldege you have not you must go by a way in which you know not.
To come to the possession you have not you must go by a way in which you possess not.
To come to be what you are not you must go by a way in which you are not.
nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nnothing, nothing.
When you delay in something you cease to rush toward the all.
To go from the all to the all you must deny yourself of all in all.
And when you come to the possession of the all you must possess it without wanting anything.
Now that I least desire them, I have them all without desire
In this nakedness the spirit finds its quietude and rest, for in coveting nothing, nothing tires it by pulling up, and nothing oppresses it by pusing it down, because it is in the center of its humility.
Dave