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13th Century

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Timeline (13th Century)

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English version by
Jane Hirshfield

Original Language
Dutch
Tighten

Themes
  Garden
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies throughout the Ages, by Ursula King
Hadewijch: The Complete Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) , by Mother Columba Hart
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, by Bernard Mcginn
Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Voices Through the Ages, Edited by Mary Ford-Grabowsky
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

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Tighten
to nothing
the circle
that is
the world's things

Then the Naked
circle
can grow wide,
enlarging,
embracing all

 

 

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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