When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Tom Robbins Quotes
"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred." - Tom Robbins
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is written as guide from a teacher to a student, with the message that God cannot be understood via reason or intellect, but only through love: “By love may He be gotten and holden, but never through thought.” To achieve this goal, the text recommends cultivation of two mental states: “The cloud of forgetting”, and “the cloud of unknowing”.
A quote by William H. Murray
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