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This book is dedicated to Zoe; the one who took my heart, filled it,

and gave it back to me. I await you, in glory, with joy.

“A brother in Scetis went to ask for a word from Abba Moses and the old man said to him, ‘Go and sit in your cell and your cell will teach you everything.’”

—The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

Abba Anthony said: “The time is coming when people will be seized by manias and will behave like madmen. And if they see anyone acting reasonably, they will rise up against him saying: ‘You are insane.’ And they will have accurately said this to him, for he will not be like them.”

—The Sayings of the Desert Fathers

“Opposed to the idea that the world of perception is the bottom of reality, the mystics plunge into what is beneath the perceptible. What they attain in their quest is more than a vague impression or spotty knowledge of the imperceptible. ‘Penetrating to the real essence of wisdom . . . they are resplendent with the radiance of supernal wisdom (Zohar II).’ Their eyes perceive things of this world, while their hearts reverberate to the throbbing of the hidden.”

—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Mystical Element in Judaism