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Quietism

noun
1.
A form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God.





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"Quietism" Quotes from Famous Books



... trustful self-donation, a "living faith." "A pleasing stirring of love," says The Cloud of Unknowing, not a desperate anxious struggle for more light. True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain. Though the way may be long, the material of your mind intractable, to the eager lover of Reality ...
— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill


Words linked to "Quietism" :   mysticism, religious mysticism, quietist


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