Dark Night of the Soul

Name: Dark Night of the Soul
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
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By John Of The Cross

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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. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker's journey from estranged despair to blissful union with the divine After escaping his captors, John fell into a state of profound ecstasy and wrote Dark Night of the Soul. Later, he added an important commentary to his poem to guide other searching souls along the arduous path to communion with God. Here, for the first time, a scholar unaffiliated with the Catholic Church has translated this timeless work. Mirabai Starr, who has studied Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, lends the seeker's sensibility to John's powerful text and brings this classic work to the twenty-first century in a brilliant and beautiful rendering

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 208
Release Date:: 2003-02-04
Publication Date:: 2003-02-04
Publisher:: Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1573229741
ISBN13:: 9781573229746
Weight:: 272 g
Height:: 123 cm
Width:: 188 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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