The Insurmountable Darkness of Love Quotes

“Sometimes the longing to enter this silence, this place of unknowing, is itself incomprehensible. Nor is the meaning of what happens to you there always legible. Even if it feels absolutely necessary.”
― Douglas E Christie, The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the Common Life

“The innermost depths [of the person] are in no sense a secluded, compact essence. Rather, by its very nature the ground of the human is groundless. It is always and in each individual sheer openness to the most all-encompassing reality—God. . . . By nature, we are a ceaseless relationship with God.”42 Which also means, by extension, that we are a ceaseless relationship with one another. Still, this relationship can only be realized or fulfilled by allowing ourselves to become “lost in the darkness of the desert” and there becoming “one with God in the fathomless abyss of God’s love.”43 In that desert, Ruusbroec insists, “we must wander modelessly and without manner. For we cannot come out of our essential being into our super essential being otherwise than with love.”
― Douglas E Christie, The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the Common Life

“I am convinced that memory has a gravitational force,” says Gaspar Galaz, an astronomer who appears toward the end of Guzmán’s film. “It is constantly attracting us. Those who have a memory are able to live in the fragile present moment. Those who have none don’t live anywhere.”
― Douglas E Christie, The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the Common Life