Bilinmezlik Bulutu

Lift up your heart unto God with a humble stirring of love; and desire Him himself and none of His goods. And beyond that, see that you loathe thinking of anything but Himself, so that nothing works in your mind nor in your will but only Himself. And do what lies within you to forget all the creatures that God ever made and their works, so that your thought or your desire is not directed or stretched toward any of them, neither in general nor in particular. But let them be, and take no notice of them. This is the work of the soul that most pleases God. All saints and angels have joy in this work and hasten to help it with all their might. Do not stop, therefore, but labor therein until you feel that spiritual desire. For at the first time when you do it, you find but a darkness, and as it were a cloud of unknowing, you know not what, except that you feel in your will a naked intent toward God. This darkness and this cloud, however you act, is between you and your God, and hinders you, so that you may neither see Him clearly by the light of understanding in your reason, nor feel Him in the sweetness of love in your emotions. And therefore prepare yourself to stay in this darkness as long as you can, evermore crying after Him whom you love.