Month: May 2023
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Chapter 3: Reflection 4 – More Knowing and Loving of God in the Blisse of Heaven
And after this I langorid forth two days and two nightes, and on the third night I wened oftentimes to have passed, and so wened they that were with me. And yet in this I felt a great louthsomnes to die, but for nothing that was in earth me liked to live for, ne for…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 3 – Life As a Succession of Points
In his commentary on Julian’s use of the word “point,” scholar Bernard McGinn reflects: “’Point’ is used by Julian to refer to any instant of time, but it has a particular resonance as ‘point of death’ …. Life as a succession of points, or instants, is always (potentially) the instant of death.” 1 Professor’s McGinn’s…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 2 – For We Lyue Bot in a Poynt
As shared previously, the 14th century hermit and mystic, Richard Rolle, writes of the “things” that spiritual practitioners should have in mind until they “be in perfect love.” Regarding the first of these four things, he writes: One is the length of your life here, which is so short that it is hardly anything at all.…
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Chapter 3: Reflection 1 – The Possibility of Death Was Not Absent
And when I was thirty yere old and a halfe, God sent me a bodily sicknes in the which I ley for three days and three nightes, and on the fourth night I toke all my rightes of holy church, and wened not to have liven till day. 1 In his Asian Journal, in an…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 