Ask grace, not instruction; desire, not understanding; the groaning of prayer, not diligence in reading; the Bridegroom, not the teacher; God, not man; darkness, not clarity.
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A map of the soul's ascent from the traces of God in the natural world, through the image of God within the mind, to a union that finally outruns thought. For Bonaventure, the point of understanding is not to possess truth but to be drawn toward its source.