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Dark Night of the Soul

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By St. John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr (translator, introduction), Thomas Moore (foreword) — 2003

While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell for his attempts to reform the Church, sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul’s longing for God. See more...

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