The Cloud of Unknowing: V. Nowhere bodily is everywhere ghostly

Nowhere bodily, is everywhere ghostly. Look then busily that thy ghostly work be nowhere

bodily. And then wheresoever that that thing is, on the which thou wilfully workest in thy mind in

substance. Surely there art thou in spirit, as verily as thy body is in that place that thou art bodily.

And therefore be wary that thou conceive not bodily that which is meant ghostly. Although that a

thing be never so ghostly in itself, nevertheless yet if it shall be spoken of, since it is so that speech

is a bodily work wrought with the tongue, the which is an instrument of the body, it behoveth

always be spoken in bodily words. Nowhere bodily, is everywhere ghostly