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Saint John of the Cross’s specific and nuanced descriptions of the effects of sin on the practices spiritual life make it so clear why he’s a spiritual master. It almost feels like a more academic, more overtly Catholic “Screwtape Letters” in how he’s able to so accurately describe the common pitfalls beginner spiritual practitioners falls into.

I can’t believe this 15th century mystic read me like a book. I feel so called out.