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''The Cloud of Unknowing'' is a practical spiritual guidebook thought to have been written in the 14th Century by an anonymous English Monk who counsels a young student to seek God not through knowledge but through Love . The book, which draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite , has reputedly inspired generations of mystical searchers from St. John Of The Cross to Teilhard De Chardin . It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook, but has also been derided by some as Anti-intellectual . The practical prayer advice contained in ''The Cloud of Unknowing'' formed the basis for the practice of Centering Prayer , a form of Christian Meditation developed by Trappist monks William Meninger , Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating in the 1970s. REFERENCES
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