The End of Knowing
Friday, Oct. 12/18
Richard Rohr, edit
when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. .
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| ...For now we see only a dim reflection as in a mirror; but then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. —1 Corinthians 13:8-10, 12 |
beyond rational critique
or intellectual understanding. Allow them to speak to you at a deeper level.
How can I think on God as God, & who is God?” I can only answer, “I don’t know.
❤️Your question takes [you] into the ❤️
darkness & cloud of unknowing that [you] want you to enter.
our minds can explore,
understand, and reflect on creation and even on God’s own works [as we
should! As is possible...]
I’m willing to abandon everything I know, to love the one thing I cannot think
God] can be loved, but not thought
Even meditating
on God’s love
must be put down [let go of] & covered with a cloud of forgetting
determination
next. Let that joyful stirring of love make you resolute, and in its enthusiasm bravely step over
meditation [cognitive reflection] & reach up to penetrate the darkness
Only love—
not knowledge—can help us reach God. . . .
Become blind during contemplative prayer
cut yourself off from needing to know things
Be content feeling moved in a delightful, loving way by something mysterious and unknown
Let your naked desire rest there. . . .our understanding cannot help us gain knowledge about
any uncreated
spiritual being
the failure of our understanding can help us.
When we reach the end of what we know, that’s where we find God.
St. Dionysius [5th/6th century] said that the best, most divine knowledge of God is that which is known by not-knowing.
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