"Well, where is the hard work then? Without a doubt it is in the stamping out all remembrance of God's creation, and in keeping them covered by that cloud of forgetting... [For] if ever you are to come to this...cloud of unknowing [in which God exists]... you must also put a cloud of forgetting beneath you and all creation."
     The Cloud of Unknowing

"Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help."
     The Cloud of Unknowing

"But now you will ask me "How am I to think of God himself, and what is he?" and I cannot answer you except to say "I do not know!" For with this question you have brought me into the same darkness, the cloud of unknowing where I want you to be!"
     The Cloud of Unknowing

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The Cloud of Unknowing quotes from THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas