A Place of Refuge
I knew, when the
idea of the cloistered heart first came to me in the 1980s, that
monasteries of nuns or monks have special places not open to outsiders.
I realized that these areas were called cloisters. It was enough
information to get me started. “The whole idea of a cloistered heart,” I
wrote in 1988, “is that the part of me referred to as the ‘heart’ –
meaning my spirit, who I really AM – should be detached from the world
in its attachment to the Creator of the world...." (read the rest here)
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