Golden Thoughts from The Spiritual Guide of Miguel Molinos: The Quietist

Seek silence in the midst of the tumult seek solitude in the masses light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury victory in the midst of despondence and courage in the midst of alarm resistance in the midst of temptation peace in the midst of war. - Michael de Molinos.Joseph Henry Shorthouse was an English novelist. Shorthouses work was always marked by high earnestness of purpose a luxuriant style and a genuinely spiritual quality. This book is a guide to what has been called Pure Prayer and Contemplative Prayer as well as the Prayer of Quiet by Michael of Molinos (Miguel Molinos) a Spanish mystic. Banned by the Vatican for his book The Spiritual Guide Michael de Molinos started a movement called Quietism. Certainly this work poses a threat to the dominance of final reliance on accepted dogma and the mediation of human authority and the control by ecclesiastical structure.This edition included a biography of Miguel Molinos The Quietist.