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# St. John of the Cross Feast Day
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/52827/
- Published: 2020-12-14T12:49:33.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-07T17:32:11.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: #wpChunk, Briefly, St. John of the Cross, Zen

### *He arguably wrote the most Zen-like passage in the Christian tradition*

### To reach satisfaction in all

### desire its possession in nothing.

### To come to possess all

### desire the possession of nothing.

### To come to the knowledge of all

### desire the knowledge of nothing.

### To come to the pleasure you have not

### you must go by a way in which you enjoy not.

### To come to the knowledge you have not

### you must go by a way in which you know not.

### To come to the possession you have not

### you must go by a way in which you possess not.

### To come to be what you are not

### you must go by a way in which you are not.

### When you turn toward something

### you cease to cast yourself upon the all.

### For to go from all to the all

### you must deny yourself of all in all.

### And when you come to the possession of the all

### you must possess it without wanting anything.

### Because if you desire to have something in all

### your treasure in God is not purely your all.

### In this nakedness the spirit finds

### its quietude and rest.

### For in coveting nothing,

### nothing raises it up

### and nothing weighs it down,

### because it is in the center of its humility.

### When it covets something

### in this very desire it is wearied (Kavanaugh & Rodriguez 1979a:103 )