Going Further
One day St John of the Cross confided to a friend that there was still something which prevented his complete detachment from earthly affections. Fetching a bundle of papers he threw them into the fire…
One day St John of the Cross confided to a friend that there was still something which prevented his complete detachment from earthly affections. Fetching a bundle of papers he threw them into the fire…
(Luis de Leon, returning to his university after five years’ imprisonment by the Inquisition, resumed his lectures with the words:) As we were saying yesterday. –Stephen Clissold, The Wisdom of the Spanish Mystics