Biblioteca de luz
Libros sobre la luz, reunidos por tema y no por fecha.
An Appeal to All that Doubt
Law se dirige a quienes dudan y vuelve a la imagen del fuego. Busca decir aquello que puede despertar una vida, más allá de lo que el pensamiento describe. Este libro prolonga la frase del día, sin decidir por el lector qué significa para él.
Encontrarlo en AmazonCenturies of Meditations
Traherne mira el mundo y busca palabras para lo que recibe. El mar y las estrellas no permanecen a distancia: ocupan un lugar en su forma de vivir. Sus meditaciones abren un espacio donde el lector puede sentir su propia mirada.
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Underhill reúne relatos de vidas orientadas hacia una experiencia de la luz. Los recorridos se responden sin confundirse. Junto al verso de Blake, este libro deja ver cómo una misma luz puede ser recibida de otro modo por cada persona.
Encontrarlo en AmazonPoems from the Divan of Hafiz
A fourteenth-century poet of Shiraz wrote these, and Gertrude Bell’s English keeps both of his habits at once: he means the wine cup and he means God, and he does not choose between them.
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Dionysius wrote in Greek some fifteen hundred years ago and signed himself with a name that was already centuries old, which is one way of saying the light was never his. This volume holds all of his surviving work, and the long fourth chapter on light is where the portrait comes from.
Encontrarlo en AmazonRevelations of Divine Love
Juliana de Norwich pone en palabras una experiencia personal. Su relato nos llega a través de los siglos, con esa frase que vuelve: todo irá bien. El libro puede leerse a su ritmo, dejando a cada cual espacio para escuchar lo que le toca.
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A fifteenth-century weaver from Benares sang these, and for centuries they travelled by voice rather than by page. Rabindranath Tagore’s English is spare on purpose: it keeps the song’s shape instead of explaining it.
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A fourteenth-century Flemish priest wrote this for people living ordinary lives, and he keeps returning to one image: a light that is common to all, and trees that stand in the same sun and bear different fruit.
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Un autor sin nombre se dirige a un lector y vuelve al amor, allí donde el pensamiento no basta. Estas páginas guardan un lugar para lo desconocido. Se encuentran como un texto transmitido, sin pedir al lector que adopte una doctrina.
Encontrarlo en AmazonThe Confessions
A bishop wrote this near the end of the fourth century, telling the whole of his life in the open and addressing it to God. He keeps returning to what can and cannot be said about light.
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Un viaje toma forma en las palabras de Dante. El Paraíso es su última parte; en el canto XXX, la luz y el amor se encuentran en un verso. El poema guarda la huella de una mirada que cambia a lo largo del camino.
Encontrarlo en AmazonThe Enneads
En las Enéadas, Plotino vuelve sobre el alma y sobre aquello que la ilumina. El pensamiento avanza hacia una experiencia que no puede contener por completo. Junto a la cita, estas páginas dan más tiempo a una mirada vuelta hacia la luz.
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A fourteenth-century English hermit wrote this in Latin, and it has been carried into English many times since. He spends the whole of it on one subject: what arrives when love comes uninvited, and how little of it language is able to hold.
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A fifteenth-century priest wrote this as counsel for ordinary life rather than for a cloister. He keeps returning to attention — to what a person can gather, and to how much of it arrives rather than being won.
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A seventeenth-century lay brother cooked in a monastery kitchen and wrote almost nothing himself; the letters and conversations here were gathered by others. He keeps returning to the same discovery, that attention can be held in the middle of ordinary work.
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A thirteenth-century beguine wrote this in her own Low German over three decades. Light is her recurring figure, and she keeps asking what it does when nothing lights it.
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A fourteenth-century English priest wrote this as guidance for one person, and it has been read ever since by people with no cell and no rule. He keeps returning to what a person can actually tell apart, and to how little of it is settled by looking.
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Este texto anónimo se detiene en el deseo y en el lugar que uno se concede. Sus capítulos breves invitan a mirar lo que cambia cuando ese lugar deja de ser tan central. Una voz de otro siglo, que cada cual puede leer desde su propio camino.
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