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Sufism: Islamic Mysticism and the Annihilation of Self in God

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The Dark Night of the Soul

On st frances that the idea of debasing himself so explicitly when he was beginning to be venerated as you say is like this this gesture towards like no don't do like don't do to me what you did to christ which is throw him up in heaven and worship him from afar listen to what he's saying go within yourself and you can be a christ yourself. On how people get messed there's the dark night of the soul project actually by somebody called willily be britain i think in the buddhist tradition who started realizing that as people got into these retreats and got really intensely into meditation often under the pretext that these are just like stress relief exercises right all of

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