Christian mystics
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1, King James Version. Project Gutenberg #10
The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous, late 14th c.)- God known by love and not by thought. Quoted in restless.
sacred-texts.com, ch. 6 Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – after 1416)- An anchoress who wrote Revelations of Divine Love, the earliest surviving writing in English known to be by a woman.
Wikipedia Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1328)- [paraphrase] He taught a letting go so complete that even our ideas of God have to go too, so that God can be found beyond them.
Wikipedia Augustine, Confessions, trans. Pusey- The restless heart.
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