Into Self ... Through Self ... Beyond Self...

We spent yesterday on a day's retreat with staff of WBC. St Katharine's Foundation was like meeting up with an old friend; I used to meet up with a contextual theology group once every couple of months and fell in love with this simple and open setting a stones throw from the bustle of Canary Wharf. It's beauty goes beyond what is inside and outside of the facilities but rests on the deep heritage of a community initiated in 1147 by Queen Matilda.

If I had a favourite place - it is up there!

A good chunk time was set aside for reflection in the afternoon and I found a copy of Cloud of Unknowing in the library and found it's emphasis of traveling into self, through self and then beyond self something interesting to think through!

I jotted this quote down and put it in my pocket; it is currently spinning around in the washing machine - but googled the gist of it and found the quote elsewhere.

"Toil and sweat in every way that you can, seeking to obtain for yourself a true knowledge and feeling of yourself as you are. And then I believe that, soon afterward, you will have a true knowledge and feeling of God as [God] is."

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