Not exact matches
It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian
mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the
most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»
Their ways of doing this are
most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a
mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in
most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious
tradition.
Drawing inspiration from his fascination with
mystical traditions (
most notably Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism and Christian mysticism), Viola's work largely deals with fundamental human experiences.