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| Title: Dark Night of the Soul - eBook By: Saint John of the Cross Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: Riverhead Books | Publication Date: 2003 ISBN: 9781101099483 ISBN-13: 9781101099483 Stock No: WW47270EB |
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
“Mirabai Starr’s admirably modernized translation restores to us a classic in all its unflinching candor.”—Andrew Harvey, bestselling author of The Direct Path
“I am grateful for Mirabai Starr’s fluid, inviting translation of this important text.”—from the Foreword by Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul
“Starr, who teaches philosophy and religious studies at the University of New Mexico, offers an engaging and evocative new translation of John's most famous treatise, “Dark Night of the Soul.”…Starr's lyrical translation and her thoughtful introduction bring new life to John's powerful treatise on the life of the soul.”—Publishers Weekly
“When the ordeals of higher stages of the path of love begin, the seeker will find no more astute or accurate guide to their meaning and mystery than St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul.
Mirabai Starr’s admirably modernized translation restores to us a classic in all its unflinching candor.”—Andrew Harvey, bestselling author of The Direct Path
“What a beautiful translation! We all have used the title as an expression—“dark night of the soul”—but few of us have gone further. Starr offers us an entryway and a path into this sixteenth-century mystic’s mind, and gives us a fine, personal introduction to begin our luminous journey.”—Natalie Goldberg, bestelling author of Writing Down the Bones
“I am grateful for Mirabai Starr’s fluid, inviting translation of this important text. He translation allows me to adapt John’s words to my life with an immediacy I’ve never felt before in relation to this work. With this marvelous English version in hand…readers might discover their spiritual calling here and make the all-important shift from curing the personality to caring for the soul.”—from the Foreword by Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul
“Not only beautiful, it is remarkably sensual.”—Los Angeles Times
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