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The Divine & christian mysticism

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The Way of the Mystics

Howard Thurman tended not to speak of his own mystical inclinations, conscious that the word mysticism was likely to be misunderstood. And yet Thurman is commonly recognized as a mystic in the sense that he used the word to describe someone who had an acute experience of the Divine Life.

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Everything as Divine: The Wisdom of Meister Eckhart

A small book that gives a solid intro to Eckart's beliefs in paradox and mystery over reason and logic.

Edmund Colledge (translator), Bernard McGinn (translator)

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Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs

Hildegard of Bingen, a Rhineland mystic of the twelfth century, has been called an ideal model of the liberated woman. She was a poet and scientist, painter and musician, healer and abbess, playwright, prophet, preacher and social critic.

Hildegard of Bingen, Matthew Fox (editor)

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FindCenter To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

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Why a 14th-Century Mystic Appeals to Today’s “Spiritual But Not Religious” Americans

The method of direct access to the divine, according to Eckhart, depended on an individual letting go of all desires and images of God and becoming aware of the “divine spark” present within. - Joel Harrington

Joel Harrington

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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Presented in Four Paths, Twenty-Six Themes, and Two Questions

Here is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the "20 books that changed the world" in New Age Journal's Annual Source Book for 1995.

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Dark Night of the Soul

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.

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

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This is Your Soul on Mysticism

Mysticism, broadly defined, is the transcendent experience of an encounter with God. For Catholic mystics like Julian, Hildegard von Bingen, St. Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, it takes the form of a vision.

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

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