So strange is this path in the light of much twentieth-century thought that it takes a particular sort of generosity on our part to open ourselves to the mystics’ way of looking at the world; we have to overcome our fear of approaching people who strike us as bizarre and extraordinarily unlike ourselves and maybe recognize that, in associating with the mystics, there is a kind of danger. We are forced to consider ways of thought that are strange to our culture.
-Furlong, Monica. Visions and longings: medieval women mystics/Monica Furlong.—1st ed.
Posted by Robert Cowlishaw (Mertonian) on 2022-11-06 04:06:00
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