"My soul has been full of God's treasures for a long time, but there was no love in it" Fruits of Juliusz Słowacki's meditation

Abstract

The article focuses on the meditative aspect of Juliusz Słowacki's spiritual transformation and discusses the fruits of his meditative attitude. The poet's correspondence became the main research material in the deliberations and findings. The work analyzes successively such qualities and derivatives of the poet's meditative lifestyle as: inner joy and delight, submission to God's drawing action, spiritual indifference, but also such actions and activities, the specificity and essence of which turn out to be the result of a meditative act. By isolating and examining these particular effects of the act of meditation, we once again agree to the research opinion of Ewa Szczeglacka-Pawłowska that the poet fully deserves to be called homo meditans. The poet's spiritual transgression has been described many times, however, placing it in the light of meditation allows us to extract new meanings from the issue.