DAY 156

The Cloud of Unknowing

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The Cloud of Unknowing
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

What is revealed to us only when we abandon all superficial knowledge and enter the cloud of unknowing?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first came upon this mysterious guide, written by an anonymous monk in the fourteenth century, I was startled by the peace that the word "unknowing" carries. To reach God, the author counsels, we must let go of all the knowledge and concepts we have piled up and enter into the cloud of unknowing. To us, who can only feel at ease when we are constantly knowing something, this book teaches how to admit the limits of knowledge and be filled by blind love alone.

— ONGO · Curator
"By love He may be gotten and holden; but by thought never."
Anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing
"이 구름 속에서는 아무것도 보이지 않고 아무것도 이해할 수 없다. 오직 사랑만이 있을 뿐이다."

🌱Apply It Today

For just ten minutes today, shut off the mind's endless searching and analyzing, close your eyes, and feel the peace of an empty mind.

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🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

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다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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