‘Canto fermo’ is the term for an existing melody used as the basis for a new composition.
The prose and poetry of mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein – all informed by the Gospel – is my ‘melody’. The ‘new composition’ is this blog and my indie novel ‘The Age for Love’. To buy my book go to amazon.com or smashwords.com and download to your kindle, iPad, phone or any reading device.
Sunday, 7 February 2016
A LITTLE SOMETHING ON THE SUBJECT OF MEDITATION (from St Teresa of Avila)
A little something from the ‘Mother of Mystics’, St Teresa of Avila, Universal Doctor of the Church (which means Doctor of the Church for all times and all places), on the subject of meditation:
I cannot understand how the mind can be stopped. There’s no way of
doing so without bringing more harm than good. Those in favour of stopping the
mind have never given me a reason for submitting to what they say.
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