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Know That When You Seek Anything Of Your Own, You Will Never Find God, Because You Do Not Seek God Purely. You Are Seeking Something Along With God, And You Are Acting Just As If You Were To Make A Candle Out Of God In Order To Look For Something With It. Once One Finds The Things One Is Looking For, One Throws The Candle Away. This Is What You Are Doing.

-Meister Eckhart

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Know That When You Seek Anything Of Your Own, You Will Never Find God, Because You Do Not Seek God Purely. You Are Seeking Something Along With God, And You Are Acting Just As If You Were To Make A Candle Out Of God In Order To Look For Something With It. Once One Finds The Things One Is Looking For, One Throws The Candle Away. This Is What You Are Doing.

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God Is At Home. We Are In The Far Country.

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Words Derive Their Power From The Original Word.

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God Must Act And Pour Himself Into You The Moment He Finds You Ready. Don't Imagine That God Can Be Compared To An Earthly Carpenter, Who Acts Or Doesn't Act, As He Wishes; Who Can Will To Do Something Or Leave It Undone, According To His Pleasure. It Is Not That Way With God: Where And When God Finds You Ready, He Must Act And Overflow Into You, Just As When The Air Is Clear And Pure, The Sun Must Overflow Into It And Cannot Refrain From Doing That.

Relation Is The Essence Of Everything That Exists.

A Man May Go Into The Field And Say His Prayer And Be Aware Of God, Or He May Be In Church And Be Aware Of God; But If He Is More Aware Of Him Because He Is In A Quiet Place, That Is His Own Deficiency And Not Due To God, Who Is Alike Present In All Things And Places, And Is Willing To Give Himself Everywhere So Far As Lies In Him... He Knows God Rightly Who Knows Him Everywhere.

The Authorities Teach That Next To The First Emanation, Which Is The Son Coming Out Of The Father, The Angels Are Most Like God. And It May Well Be True, For The Soul At Its Highest Is Formed Like God, But An Angel Gives A Closer Idea Of Him. That Is All An Angel Is: An Idea Of God. For This Reason The Angel Was Sent To The Soul, So That The Soul Might Be Re-formed By It, To Be The Divine Idea By Which It Was First Conceived.

Some People Want To See God With Their Eyes As They See A Cow, And To Love Him As They Love A Cow - For The Milk And Cheese And Profit It Brings Them. This Is How It Is With People Who Love God For The Sake Of Outward Wealth Or Inward Comfort. They Do Not Rightly Love God, When They Love Him For Their Own Advantage.

Compassion Is Where Peace And Justice Kiss

Though One Should Live Through All The Time From Adam And All The Time To Come Before The Judgment Day Doing Good Works, Yet He Who, Energising In His Highest, Purest Part, Crosses From Time To Eternity, Verily In The Sight Of God This Man Conceives And Does Far More Than Anyone Who Lives Throughout All Past And Future Time, Because This Now Includes The Whole Of Time. One Master Says That In Crossing Over Time Into The Now Each Power Of The Soul Will Surpass Itself. . . .

There Exists Only The Present Instant... A Now Which Always And Without End Is Itself New. There Is No Yesterday Nor Any Tomorrow, But Only Now, As It Was A Thousand Years Ago And As It Will Be A Thousand Years Hence.

All That The Eternal Father Teaches And Reveals Is His Being, His Nature, And His Godhead, Which He Manifests To Us In His Son, And Teaches Us That We Are Also His Son.

The Outward Work Can Never Be Small If The Inward One Is Great, And The Outward Work Can Never Be Great Or Good If The Inward Is Small Or Of Little Worth.

People Should Not Worry So Much About What They Do But Rather About What They Are.

As Long As I Am This Or That, Or Have This Or That, I Am Not All Things And I Have Not All Things. Become Pure Till You Neither Are Nor Have Either This Or That; Then You Are Omnipresent And, Being Neither This Nor That, Are All Things.

I Tell You The Truth, Any Object You Have In Your Mind, However Good, Will Be A Barrier Between You And The Inmost Truth.

People Should Think Less About What They Ought To Do And More About What They Ought To Be. If Only Their Being Were Good, Their Works Would Shine Forth Brightly. Do Not Imagine That You Can Ground Your Salvation Upon Actions; It Must Rest On What You Are.

One Must Not Always Think So Much About What One Should Do, But Rather What One Should Be. Our Works Do Not Ennoble Us; But We Must Ennoble Our Works.

Grace Pours All Beauty Into The Soul ... The Soul Means The World.

Everything Is Full And Pure At Its Source And Precisely There, Not Outside.

We Shall Find God In Everything Alike, And Find God Always Alike In Everything.

Think More About Who You Are And Less About What You Do, For If You Are Just, Your Ways Will Be Just.

The Price Of Inaction Is Far Greater Than The Cost Of Making A Mistake.

Do Not Think That Saintliness Comes From Occupation; It Depends Rather On What One Is. The Kind Of Work We Do Does Not Make Us Holy, But We May Make It Holy.

Whatever Thou Sayest Of God Is Untrue.

God Wants Nothing From You But The Gift Of A Peaceful Heart.

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The Less You Feel And The More Firmly You Believe, The More Praiseworthy Is Your Faith And The More It Will Be Esteemed And Appreciated; For Real Faith Is Much More Than A Mere Opinion Of Man. In It We Have True Knowledge: In Truth, We Lack Nothing Save True Faith.

If The Only Prayer You Ever Say In Your Entire Life Is Thank You, It Will Be Enough.

Man Goes Far Away Or Near But God Never Goes Far-off; He Is Always Standing Close At Hand, And Even If He Cannot Stay Within He Goes No Further Than The Door.

The Knower And The Known Are One. Simple People Imagine That They Should See God As If He Stood There And They Here. This Is Not So. God And I, We Are One In Knowledge.

The Eye With Which I See God Is The Same Eye With Which God Sees Me.

Truly, It Is In Darkness That One Finds The Light, So When We Are In Sorrow, Then This Light Is Nearest Of All To Us.

What We Plant In The Soil Of Contemplation, We Shall Reap In The Harvest Of Action.

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God Is Equally Near In All Creatures.

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Now Rejoice, All Ye Powers Of My Soul, That You Are So United With God That No One May Separate You From Him. I Cannot Fully Praise Nor Love Him Therefore Must I Die, And Cast Myself Into The Divine Void, Till I Rise From Non-existence To Existence.

Wisdom Consists In Doing The Next Think You Have To Do, Doing It With Your Whole Heart, And Finding Delight In Doing It.

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Whether You Like It Or Not, Whether You Know It Or Not, Secretly All Nature Seeks God And Works Toward [god].

If You Seek The Kernel, Then You Must Break The Shell. An Likewise, If You Would Know The Reality Of Nature, You Must Destroy The Appearance, And The Farther You Go Beyond The Appearance, The Nearer You Will Be To The Essence.

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.... All Blades Of Grass, Wood, And Stone, All Things Are One.

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Let God Operate In Thee; Hand The Work Over To Him And Do Not Disquiet Thyself As To Whether Or No He Is Working With Nature Or Above Nature, For His Are Both Nature And Grace.

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The Seed Of God Is In Us. If The Seed Had A Good, Wise And Industrious Cultivator, It Would Thrive All The More And Grow Up To God Whose Seed It Is, And The Fruit Would Be Equal To The Nature Of God. Now The Seed Of A Pear Tree Grows Into A Pear Tree, A Hazel Seed Into A Hazel Tree, And The Seed Of God Into God.

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God Is Bound To Act, To Pour Himself Out (into Thee) As Soon As Ever He Shall Find Thee Ready.

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Nobody At Any Time Is Cut Off From God.

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Nothing Will Be Able To Hinder Us, If We Desire And Seek God Alone, And Take Pleasure In Nothing Else.

It Is A Fair Trade And An Equal Exchange: To The Extent That You Depart From Things, Thus Far, No More And No Less, God Enters Into You With All That Is His, As Far As You Have Stripped Yourself Of Yourself In All Things. It Is Here That You Should Begin, Whatever The Cost, For It Is Here That You Will Find True Peace, And Nowhere Else.

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You Need Seek God Neither Below Or Above.he Is No Farther Away Than The Door Of The Heart.

That's All An Angel Is....an Idea Of God.

A Human Being Has So Many Skins Inside, Covering The Depths Of The Heart. We Know So Many Things, But We Don't Know Ourselves! Why, Thirty Or Forty Skins Or Hides, As Thick And Hard As An Ox's Or Bear's, Cover The Soul. Go Into Your Own Ground And Learn To Know Yourself There.

There Is No Stopping Place In This Life--nor Is There Ever One For Any Person, No Matter How Far Along The Way One's Gone.

In Silence Man Can Most Readily Preserve His Integrity.

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Though It May Be Called A Nescience, And Unknowing, Yet There Is In It More Than All Knowing And Understanding Without It; For This Unknowing Lures And Attracts You From All Understood Things, And From Yourself As Well.

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Our Bodily Food Is Changed Into Us, But Our Spiritual Food Changes Us Into It.

I Will Be Silent And Will Hear What God Will Say In Me...if God Wishes To Speak To Me, Let Him Enter. I Will Not Go Out.

My Lord Told Me A Joke. And Seeing Him Laugh Has Done More For Me Than Any Scripture I Will Ever Read.

A Life Of Rest And Peace In God Is Good; A Life Of Pain Lived In Patience Is Still Better; But To Have Peace In A Life Of Pain Is Best Of All.

To The Extent That You Eliminate Ego From Your Activities, God Comes Into Them - But No More And No Less. Begin With That, And Let It Cost You Your Uttermost. In This Way, And No Other, Is True Peace To Be Found.

There Is In The Soul A Something In Which God Dwells, And There Is In The Soul A Something In Which The Soul Dwells In God.

You Will Have Peace To The Extent That You Have God, And The Further You Are Away From God The Less You Will Be At Peace... Thus You May Measure Your Progress With God By Measuring Your Peace Or The Lack Of It.

Now The Father Draws Us From The Evil Of Sin To The Goodness Of His Grace With The Might Of His Measureless Power, And He Needs All The Resources Of His Strength In Order To Convert Sinners, More Than When He Was About To Make Heaven And Earth, Which He Made With His Own Power Without Help From Any Creature. But When He Is About To Convert A Sinner, He Always Needs The Sinner's Help. "he Converts Thee Not Without Thy Help," As St. Augustine Says.

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No Man Was Ever Lost Except For One Reason: Having Once Left His Ground He Has Let Himself Become Too Permanently Settled Abroad.

Nature's Intent Is Neither Food, Nor Drink, Nor Clothing, Nor Comfort, Nor Anything Else In Which God Is Left Out. Whether You Like It Or Not, Whether You Know It Or Not, Secretly Nature Seeks, Hunts, Tries To Ferret Out The Track On Which God May Be Found.

It Is Permissible To Take Life's Blessings With Both Hands Provided Thou Dost Know Thyself Prepared In The Opposite Event To Take Them Just As Gladly. This Applies To Food And Friends And Kindred, To Anything God Gives And Takes Away... As Long As God Is Satisfied Do Thou Rest Content. If He Is Pleased To Want Something Else Of Thee, Still Rest Content.

I Have A Capacity In My Soul For Taking In God Entirely. I Am As Sure As I Live That Nothing Is So Near To Me As God.

The Most Powerful Prayer, One Well-nigh Omnipotent, And The Worthiest Work Of All Is The Outcome Of A Quiet Mind. The Quieter It Is The More Powerful, The Worthier, The Deeper, The More Telling And More Perfect The Prayer Is. To The Quiet Mind All Things Are Possible. What Is A Quiet Mind? A Quiet Mind Is One Which Nothing Weighs On, Nothing Worries, Which, Free From Ties And From All Self-seeking, Is Wholly Merged Into The Will Of God And Dead To Its Own.

If I Had A Friend And Loved Him Because Of The Benefits Which This Brought Me And Because Of Getting My Own Way, Then It Would Not Be My Friend That I Loved But Myself. I Should Love My Friend On Account Of His Own Goodness And Virtues And Account Of All That He Is In Himself. Only If I Love My Friend In This Way Do I Love Him Properly.

Become Aware Of What Is In You. Announce It, Pronounce It, Produce It, And Give Birth To It.

For A Heart To Be Perfectly Ready It Has To Be Perfectly Empty. In This Condition It Has Attained Its Maximum Capacity.

The More Deeply We Are Our True Selves, The Less Self Is In Us.

Where Intuition Finds, Love Follows, And Memory And All The Soul As Well.

Above All Else, Know This: Be Prepared At All Times For The Gifts Of God And Be Ready Always For New Ones. For God Is A Thousand Times More Ready To Give Than We Are To Receive

[w]e Must Come Into A Transformed Knowing, An Unknowing Which Comes Not From Ignorance But From Knowledge.

Therefore, Look Only For This Fishhook, And You Will Be Happily Caught. The More You Are Caught, The More You Will Be Liberated.

Love Is As Strong As Death, As Hard As Hell. Death Separates The Soul From The Body, But Love Separates All Things From The Soul.

Love Is The Root Of All Joy And Sorrow.

To Be Sure, Our Mental Processes Often Go Wrong, So That We Imagine God To Have Gone Away. What Should Be Done Then? Do Exactly What You Would Do If You Felt Most Secure. Learn To Behave Thus Even In Deepest Distress And Keep Yourself That Way In Any And Every Estate Of Life. I Can Give You No Better Advice Than To Find God Where You Lost Him.

The Soul Is Created In A Place Between Time And Eternity: With Its Highest Powers It Touches Eternity, With Its Lower Time.

When Someone Goes Out Of Himself To Find God Or Fetch God, He Is Wrong.

The Most Important Hour Is Always The Present. The Most Significant Person Is Precisely The One Sitting Across From You Right Now. The Most Necessary Work Is Always Love.

Philosophers Say The Soul Is Double-faced, Her Upper Face Gazes At God All The Time And Her Lower Face Looks Somewhat Down, Informing The Senses; And The Upper Face, Which Is The Summit Of The Soul, Is In Eternity And Has Nothing To Do With Time: It Knows Nothing Of Time Or Of Body.

To The Quiet Mind All Things Are Possible.

No-one Knows What The Soul Is. But What We Do Know Is, The Soul Is Where God Works Compassion

Only He To Whom God Is Present In Everything And Who Employs His Reason In The Highest Degree And Has Enjoyment In It Knows Anything Of True Peace And Has A Real Kingdom Of Heaven.

And So, Too, I Speak Of Love: He Who Is Held By It Is Held By The Strongest Of Bonds, And Yet The Stress Is Pleasant. Moreover, He Can Sweetly Bear All That Happens To Him. When One Has Found This Bond, He Looks For No Other.

He Who Would Be Serene And Pure Needs But One Thing, Detachment.

People Who Have Let Go Of Themselves Are So Pure That The World Cannot Harm Them.

A Free Mind Is One Which Is Untroubled And Unfettered By Anything, Which Has Not Bound Its Best Part To Any Particular Manner Of Being Or Worship And Which Does Not Seek Its Own Interest In Anything But Is Always Immersed In God's Most Precious Will. . . . There Is No Work Which Men And Women Can Perform, However Small, Which Does Not Draw From This Its Power And Strength.

What Good Is It To Me That Mary Gave Birth To The Son Of God Fourteen Hundred Years Ago, And I Do Not Also Give Birth To The Son Of God In My Time And In My Culture? We Are All Meant To Be Mothers Of God. God Is Always Needing To Be Born.

...where And When God Finds You Ready, He Must Act And Overflow Into You, Just As When The Air Is Clear And Pure, The Sun Must Overflow Into It And Cannot Refrain From Doing That.

To Seek God By Rituals Is To Get The Ritual And Lose God In The Process

God Is Not Good, Or Else He Could Do Better.

The Soul Must Long For God In Order To Be Set Aflame By God's Love; But If The Soul Cannot Yet Feel The Longing, Then It Must Long For The Longing. To Long For The Longing Is Also From God.

By Humility, Out Of An Enemy He Has Made A Friend, Which Is More Than To Have Created A New Earth.

The Man Who Has Submitted His Will And Purposes Entirely To God, Carries God With Him In All His Works And In All Circumstances.

The Father And The Son Have One Will, And That Will Is The Holy Ghost, Who Gives Himself To The Soul So That The Divine Nature Permeates The Powers Of The Soul So That It Can Only Do God-like Works.

Everything Is Meant To Be Lost, That The Soul May Stand In Unhampered Nothingness

When I Experience Love I Must Go To God. When I Experience Non-attachment God Must Come To Me.

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Stillness Is Where Creativity And Solutions Are Found.

There Is No Greater Valor Nor No Sterner Fight. He Who Would Be What He Ought To Be Must Stop Being What He Is.

People Should Not Worry As Much About What They Do But Rather About What They Are. If They And Their Ways Are Good, Then Their Deeds Are Radiant. If You Are Righteous, Then What You Do Will Also Be Righteous. We Should Not Think That Holiness Is Based On What We Do But Rather On What We Are, For It Is Not Our Works Which Sanctify Us But We Who Sanctify Our Works.

I Need To Be Silent For Awhile, Worlds Are Forming In My Heart.

When The Soul Wants To Experience Something She Throws Out An Image In Front Of Her And Then Steps Into It.

In My Breaking Through...i Transcend All Creatures And Am Neither God Nor Creature...for In This Breaking Through I Find That God And I Are Both The Same.

This Is My Only And Permanent Complaint, That Vulgar People, Empty Of The Spirit Of God, Want To Judge Solely By Their Human Thinking What They Listen To Or Read In The Bible, Which Has Been Pronounced And Written By The Holy Spirit And In The Holy Spirit.

And Suddenly You Know: It's Time To Start Something New And Trust The Magic Of Beginnings.

When A Man Sees The One In All Things, He Is Above Mere Understanding.

He Who Can Make Distinction In God Without Number Or Quantity, Knows That The Three Persons Of The Trinity Are One God.

The Soul At Its Highest Is Found Like God, But An Angel Gives A Closer Idea Of Him. That Is All An Angel Is: An Idea Of God.

Only Those Who Have Dared To Let Go Can Dare To Re-enter.

Only The Hand That Erases Can Write The True Thing.

I May Err But I Am Not A Heretic, For The First Has To Do With The Mind And The Second With The Will!

No One Is Forgotten. It Is A Lie, Any Talk Of God That Does Not Comfort You.

For The Person Who Has Learned To Let Go And Let Be, Nothing Can Ever Get In The Way Again.

Nothing In All Creation Is So Like God As Stillness.

This Is Not Only A Commandment But Also A Promise Or Reward.

Behold How All Those People Are Merchants Who Shun Great Sins And Would Like To Be Good And Do Good Deeds In God's Honour, Such As Fasts, Vigils, Prayers, And Similar Good Deeds Of All Kinds. They Do All These Things So That Our Lord May Give Them Something, Or So That God May Do Something Dear To Them. All These People Are Merchants.

Some People Prefer Solitude. They Say Their Peace Of Mind Depends On This. Others Say They Would Be Better Off In Church. If You Do Well, You Do Well Wherever You Are. If You Fail, You Fail Wherever You Are. Your Surroundings Don't Matter. God Is With You Everywhere -- In The Market Place As Well As In Seclusion Or In The Church. If You Look For Nothing But God, Nothing Or No One Can Disturb You. God Is Not Distracted By A Multitude Of Things. Nor Can We Be.

People Should Not Worry As Much About What They Do But Rather About What They Are. If They And Their Ways Are Good, Then Their Deeds Are Radiant... It Is Not Our Works Which Sanctify Us But We Who Sanctify Our Works.

I Maintain That All Sorrow Comes From Love Of Those Things Of Which Loss Deprives Me.

There Is A Huge Silence Inside Each Of Us That Beckons Us Into Itself, And The Recovery Of Our Own Silence Can Begin To Teach Us The Language Of Heaven.

Remember This: All Suffering Comes To An End. And Whatever You Suffer Authentically, God Has Suffered From It First.

Action And Becoming Are One.

If You Love Yourself, You Love Everybody Else As You Do Yourself. As Long As You Love Another Person Less Than You Love Yourself, You Will Not Really Succeed In Loving Yourself But If You Love All Alike, Including Yourself, You Will Love Them As One Person And That Person Is Both God And Man.

Loving Yourself

The Outward Man Is The Swinging Door; The Inner Man Is The Still Hinge.

Once A Man Came To Me - It Was Not Too Long Ago - And Said That He Had Given Away Much Landed Property And Many Goods For His Own Sake So That He Might Save His Soul. Then I Thought: 'how Little And How Insignificant Is What You Have Let Go Of! It Is Blindness And Foolishness For You To Continue Looking At All You've Let Go Of. If, However, You've Let Go Of Yourself, Then You've Really Let Go.'

God Holds Each Of Us By A String. When We Sin, We Cut The String. But God Ties It Up Again, Making A Knot. Each Time Our Wrongdoing Cuts The String, God Ties Another Knot Drawing Us Up Closer To Him.

Knowing Who You Are

Nothing Is Sharper Than Suffering, Nothing Is Sweeter Than To Have Suffered.

God Is Greater Than God.

One Must Learn An Inner Solitude, Where Or With Whomsoever He May Be. He Must Learn To Penetrate Things And Find God There, To Get A Strong Impression Of God Firmly Fixed On His Mind.

The Soul Does Not Grow By Addition But By Subtraction.

What Does God Do All Day Long? He Gives Birth. From The Beginning Of Eternity, God Lies On A Maternity Bed Giving Birth To All. God Is Creating This Whole Universe Full And Entire In This Present Moment.

Love Will Never Be Anywhere Except Where Equality And Unity Are..... And There Can Be No Love Where Love Does Not Find Equality Or Is Not Busy Creating Equality. Nor Is There Any Pleasure Without Equality. Practice Equality In Human Society. Learn To Love, Esteem, Consider All People Like Yourself. What Happens To Another, Be It Bad Or Good, Pain Or Joy, Ought To Be As If It Happened To You.

Even Stones Have A Love, A Love That Seeks The Ground.

The Only Thing That Burns In Hell Is The Part Of You That Won't Let Go Of Your Life: Your Memories, Your Attachments. They Burn Them All Away, But They're Not Punishing You, They're Freeing Your Soul. If You're Frightened Of Dying And You're Holding On, You'll See Devils Tearing Your Life Away. If You've Made Your Peace, Then The Devils Are Really Angels Freeing You From The Earth.

One Must Learn An Inner Solitude, Wherever Or With Whomsoever He May Be.

The First Measn By Which He Draws Is Affinity, That Affinity Which Brings Creatures Of The Same Species Together, And Like To Its Like. With This Cord Of Affinity He Drew Men To The Godhead, Whom He Always Resembles. In Order That God May Draw More To Himself, And Forget His Wrath.

The Ultimate And Highest Leave Taking Is Leaving God For God, Leaving Your Notion Of God For An Experience Of That Which Transcends All Notions.

The Seed Of God Is In Us. Given An Intelligent And Hard-working Farmer, It Will Thrive And Grow Up To God, Whose Seed It Is; And Accordingly Its Fruits Will Be God-nature. Pear Seeds Grow Into Pear Trees, Nut Seeds Into Nut Trees, And God-seed Into God.

Through The Higher Love The Whole Life Of Man Is To Be Elevated From Temporal Selfishness To The Spring Of All Love, To God: Man Will Again Be Master Over Nature By Abiding In God And Lifting Her Up To God.

God Is The Word That Speaks Itself.

The More We Have The Less We Own.

We Are All Meant To Be Mothers Of God, For God Is Always Needing To Be Born.

My Children, Mark Me. I Pray You. Know! God Loves My Soul So Much That His Very Life And Being Depend Upon His Loving Me, Whether He Would Or No. To Stop God Loving Me Would Be To Rob Him Of His Godhood; For God Is Love No Less Than He Is Truth; As He Is Good, So Is He Love As Well. It Is The Absolute Truth, As God Lives... If Anyone Would Ask Me What God Is, I Should Answer: God Is Love, And So Altogether Lovely That Creatures All With One Accord Essay To Love His Loveliness, Whether They Do So Knowingly Or Unbeknownst, In Joy Or Sorrow.

Outward As Well As Inward Morality Helps To Form The Idea Of A True Christian Freedom. We Are Right To Lay Stress On Inwardness, But In This World There Is No Inwardness Without An Outward Expression.

To Be Properly Expressed A Thing Must Proceed From Within, Moved By Its Form: It Must Come, Not In From Without But Out From Within.

The Most Powerful Prayer, One Wellnigh Omnipotent, And The Worthiest Work Of All Is The Outcome Of A Quiet Mind. The Quieter It Is The More Powerful, The Worthier, The Deeper, The More Telling And More Perfect The Prayer Is.

There Exists Only The Present Instant ... There Is No Yesterday Nor Any Tomorrow, But Only Now.

People Who Dwell In God Dwell In The Eternal Now.

You May Call God Love, You May Call God Goodness. But The Best Name For God Is Compassion.

A Question Arises Regarding The Angels Who Dwell With Us, Serve Us And Protect Us, Whether Their Joys Are Equal To Those Of The Angels In Heaven, Or Whether They Are Diminished By The Fact That They Protect And Serve Us. No, They Are Certainly Not; For The Work Of The Angels Is The Will Of God, And The Will Of God Is The Work Of The Angels; Their Service To Us Does Not Hinder Their Joy Nor Their Working. If God Told An Angel To Go To A Tree And Pluck Caterpillars Off It, The Angel Would Be Quite Ready To Do So, And It Would Be His Happiness, If It Were The Will Of God.

Protect And Serve

The Love By Which We Love God Is The Very Same Love With Which God Has First Loved Us.

What A Man Takes In By Contemplation, That He Pours Out In Love.

There Are Plenty To Follow Our Lord Half-way, But Not The Other Half. They Will Give Up Possessions, Friends And Honors, But It Touches Them To Closely To Disown Themselves.

What Good Is It That Christ Was Born [2,000] Years Ago If He Is Not Born Now In Your Heart?

The Moral Task Of Man Is A Process Of Spiritualization. All Creatures Are Go-betweens, And We Are Placed In Time That By Diligence In Spiritual Business We May Grow Liker And Nearer To God. The Aim Of Man Is Beyond The Temporal - In The Serene Region Of The Everlasting Present.

Every Creature Is A Word Of God.

There Is Nothing So Much Like God In All The Universe As Silence.

A Pure Heart Is One That Is Unencumbered, Unworried, Uncommitted And Which Does Not Want Its Own Way About Anything But Which, Rather, Is Submerged In The Loving Will Of God.

This Then Is Salvation - When We Marvel At The Beauty Of Created Things And Praise Their Beautiful Creator.

Our Best Chance Of Finding God Is To Look In The Place Where We Left Him.

All God Wants Of Man Is A Peaceful Heart.

If We Seek God For Our Own Good And Profit, We Are Not Seeking God.

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