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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.

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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.

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To Get At The Core Of God At His Greatest, One Must First Get To The Core Of Himself At His Least, For No One Can Know God Who Has Not First Known Himself. This Core Is A Simple Stillness, Which Is Unmoved Itself But By Whose Immobility All Things Are Moved And All Receive Life.

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.

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.

One Person Who Has Mastered Life Is Better Than A Thousand Persons Who Have Mastered Only The Contents Of Books, But No One Can Get Anything Out Of Life Without God.

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

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

To Be Full Of Things Is To Be Empty Of God; To Be Empty Of Things Is To Be Full Of God.

God Is Like A Person Who Clears His Throat While Hiding And So Gives Himself Away. God Lies In Wait For Us With Nothing So Much As Love.

God Does Not Work In All Hearts Alike, But According To The Preparation And Sensitivity He Finds In Each.

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.

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

If God Gave The Soul His Whole Creation She Would Not Be Filled Thereby But Only With Himself.

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.

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.

God Is In All Things, But So Far As God Is Divine And So Far As He Is Rational, God Is Nowhere So Properly As In The Soul - In The Innermost Of The Soul

Let God Work In You, Give The Work To God, And Have Peace. Don't Worry If He Works Through Your Nature Or Above Your Nature, Because Both Are His, Nature And Grace.

God Is The Word That Speaks Itself.

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.

Truth Is Something So Noble That If God Could Turn Aside From It, I Could Keep The Truth And Let God Go.

The Eye Through Which I See God Is The Same Eye Through Which God Sees Me; My Eye And God's Eye Are One Eye, One Seeing, One Knowing, One Love.

Existence Itself Stands In Need Of Nothing, For It Lacks Nothing, Whereas Everything Else Needs It, Because Outside Of It There Is Nothing. Nothingness Stands In Need Of Existence, As A Sick Man Lacks Health And Is In Need. Health Has No Need Of A Sick Man. To Want Nothing, Therefore, Characterizes The Highest Perfection, Is Fullest And Purest Existence.

Your Own Efforts "did Not Bring It To Pass," Only God-but Rejoice If God Found A Use For Your Efforts In His Work.

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.

Relation Is The Essence Of Everything That Exists.

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.

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.

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.

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

God Is Equally Near In All Creatures.

I Have Sought Earnestly And With Great Diligence That Good And High Virtue By Which Man May Draw Closest To God... And As Far As My Intelligence Would Permit, I Find That High Virtue To Be Pure Disinterest, That Is, Detachment From Creatures. Our Lord Said To Martha 'unum Est Necessarium', Which Is To Say; To Be Untroubled And Pure, One Thing Is Necessary And That Is Disinterest.

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

Time Is What Keeps The Light From Reaching Us. There Is No Greater Obstacle To God Than Time: And Not Only Time But Temporalities, Not Only Temporal Things But Temporal Affections, Not Only Temporal Affections But The Very Taint And Smell Of Time.

Apprehend God In All Things, For God Is In All Things. Every Single Creature Is Full Of God And Is A Book About God. Every Creature Is A Word Of God.

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

As Long As I Am This Or That, I Am Not All Things.

It Is Not By Your Actions That You Will Be Saved, But By Your Being.

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

God Is Not Found In The Soul By Adding Anything But By A Process Of Subtraction.

Every Creature Is A Word Of God.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

God Is Nearer To Me Than I Am To Myself; He Is Just As Near To Wood And Stone, But They Do Not Know It.

The Greatest Power Available To Man Is Not To Use It.

Be Willing To Be A Beginner Every Single Morning.

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. . . .

The Soul Loves The Body. And Consider Too How It Is That The Body Is More In The Soul Than The Soul Is In The Body.

The Now Wherein God Made The World Is As Near This Time As The Now I Am Speaking In This Moment, And The Last Day Is As Near This Now As Was Yesterday.

Whatever Thou Sayest Of God Is Untrue.

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.

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

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

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.

Whatever God Does, The First Outburst Is Always Compassion.

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

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.

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

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.

Treat All Things As If They Were Loaned To You Without Any Ownership - Whether Body Or Soul, Sense Or Strength, External Goods Or Honors, House Or Hall . . . Everything.

The Seed Of God Is In Us: Pear Seeds Grow Into Pear Trees; Hazel Seeds Into Hazel Trees; And God Seeds Into God.

The Outward Work Will Never Be Puny If The Inward Work Is Great.

It Is In The Darkness That One Finds The Light.

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.'

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

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 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.

To Be Right, A Person Must Do One Of Two Things: Either He Must Learn To Have God In His Work And Hold Fast To Him There, Or He Must Give Up His Work Altogether. Since, However, We Cannot Live Without Activities That Are Both Human And Various, We Must Learn To Keep God I Everything We Do, And Whatever The Job Or Place, Keep On With Him, Letting Nothing Stand In Our Way.

Do Exactly What You Would Do If You Felt Most Secure.

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.

If We Keep Our Eyes Fixed On God Alone, Then Truly He Must Work In Us And Nothing, Neither The Crowd Nor Any Place Can Hinder Him In This.

All God Wants Of Man Is A Peaceful Heart.

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

Nothing In All Creation Is So Like God As Stillness.

God Is Greater Than God.

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.

Saint Augustine Cries, Lord I Cannot Love You, But Come In And Love Yourself In Me. According To Saint Paul, We Must Put Off Our Own Natural Form And Put On The Form Of God, And Saint Augustine Tells Us To Discard Our Own Mode Of Nature; Then The Divine Nature Will Flow In And Be Revealed. Saint Augustine Says, Those Who Seek And Find, Find Not. He Who Seeks And Finds Not, He Alone Finds. Saint Paul Says, What I Was, Was Not I, It Was God In Me.

The Very Best And Highest Attainment In This Life Is To Remain Still And Let God Act And Speak In You.

God Is At Home, It's We Who Have Gone Out For A Walk.

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

When I Think Of God's Kingdom, I Am Compelled To Be Silent Because Of Its Immensity, Because God's Kingdom Is None Other Than God Himself With All His Riches.

God Is Intelligence Occupied With Knowing Itself.

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

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

Compassion Is Where Peace And Justice Kiss

The Soul Will Bring Forth Person If God Laughs Into Her And She Laughs Back To Him. To Speak In Parable, The Father Laughs Into The Son And The Son Laughs Back To The Father; And This Laughter Breeds Liking And Liking Breeds Joy, And Joy Begets Love, And Love Begets Person, And Person Begets The Holy Ghost.

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

I Am What I Wanted And I Want What I Am.

The Second Means Of Attraction Which He Used Is Emptiness, As We See When We Place One End Of A Hollow Pipe In Water, And Draw Up It By Suction; The Water Runs Up The Stem To The Mouth, Because The Emptiness Of The Pipe, From Which The Air Has Been Drawn, Draws The Water To Itself.

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.

In Silence Man Can Most Readily Preserve His Integrity.

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.

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.

What Our Lord Did Was Done With The Intent, And This Alone, That He Might Be With Us And We With Him.

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

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.

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

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

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.

When God Sends His Angel To The Soul It Becomes The One Who Knows For Sure.

To Walk On Not Wondering Am I Right Or Doing Something Wrong.

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

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.

Things Are All Made From Nothing; Hence Their True Source Is Nothing.

I Have Often Said That A Person Who Wishes To Begin A Good Life Should Be Like One Who Draws A Circle. Let Him Or Her Get The Center In The Right Place And Keep It So And The Circumference Will Be Good.

...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.

As God Can Only Be Seen By His Own Light, So He Can Only Be Loved By His Own Love.

I Am As Sure As I Live That Nothing Is So Near To Me As God. God Is Nearer To Me Than I Am To Myself; My Existence Depends On The Nearness And The Presence Of God.

Presence Of God

The Beast That Bears You Fastest To Perfection Is Suffering.

Even Now One Rarely Hears Of People Achieving Great Things Unless They First Stumble In Some Respect.

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.

Whoever Has God Truly As A Companion, Is With Him In All Places, Both On The Streets, And Among People, As Well As In Church, Or In The Desert Or In A Monastic Cell...why Is This So? It Is So Because Such A Person Possesses God Alone, Keeping Their Gaze Fixed Upon God, And Thus All Things Become God For Him Or Her. Such People Be A God In All Their Deeds And In All The Places They Go, And It Is God Alone Who Is The Author Of All Their Deeds.

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.

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

All That God Asks You Most Pressingly Is To Go Out Of Yourself … And Let God Be God In You

God Expects But One Thing Of You, And That Is That You Should Come Out Of Yourself In So Far As You Are A Created Being Made And Let God Be God In You.

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 Say That God Is Good, That Is Not True. God Is Not Good. I Am Good, And If I Say That God Is Wise, That Is Not True. I Am Wiser Than He Is.

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

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

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

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.

There Is Something In The Soul That Is So Akin To God That It Is One With Him... It Has Nothing In Common With Anything Created.

In This Breaking-through, I Receive That God And I Are One. Then I Am What I Was, And Then I Neither Diminish Nor Increase, For I Am Then An Immovable Cause That Moves All Things.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

God Is A Great Underground River That No One Can Dam Up And No One Can Stop.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Stillness Is Where Creativity And Solutions Are Found.

A Just Person Is One Who Is Conformed And Transformed Into Justice.

Only The Hand That Erases Can Write The True Thing.

A Man Should Orient His Will And All His Works To God And Having Only God In View Go Forward Unafraid, Not Thinking, Am I Right Or Am I Wrong? One Who Worked Out All The Chances Before Starting His First Fight Would Never Fight At All. And If, Going To Someplace, We Must Think How To Set The Front Foot Down, We Shall Never Get There. It Is Our Duty To Do The Next Thing: Go Straight On, That Is The Right Way.

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.

The More We Have The Less We Own.

To Grasp God In All Things--this Is The Sign Of Your New Birth.

He Is Conscious Only Of God...to Be Conscious Of Knowing God Is To Know About God And Self.

The Human Spirit Must Transcend Number And Break Through Multiplicity, And God Will Break Through Him; And Just As He

If Anyone Went On For A Thousand Years Asking Of Life: 'why Are You Living?' Life, If It Could Answer, Would Only Say, 'i Live So That I May Live.' That Is Because Life Lives Out Of Its Own Ground And Springs From Its Own Source, And So It Lives Without Asking Why It Is Itself Living.

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

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.

The Very Best And Noblest Attainment In This Life Is To Be Silent And Let God Work And Speak Within. Therefore It Is Said: 'in The Midst Of Silence The Secret Word Was Spoken To Me'.

Theologians May Quarrel, But The Mystics Of The World Speak The Same Language.

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

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.

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

Experience Love

Words Derive Their Power From The Original Word.

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

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.

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

We Are Celebrating The Feast Of The Eternal Birth Which God The Father Has Borne And Never Ceases To Bear In All Eternity... But If It Takes Not Place In Me, What Avails It? Everything Lies In This, That It Should Take Place In Me.

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.

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

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

The Shell Must Be Cracked Apart If What Is In It Is To Come Out, For If You Want The Kernel You Must Break The Shell. And Therefore If You Want To Discover Nature's Nakedness You Must Destroy Its Symbols, And The Farther You Get In The Nearer You Come To Its Essence. When You Come To The One That Gathers All Things Up Into Itself, There You Must Stay.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whoever Possesses God In Their Being Has Him In A Divine Manner, And He Shines Out To Them In All Things; For Them All Things Taste Of God And In All Things It Is God's Image That They See.

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.

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

If The Seal Is Pressed Completely Through The Wax So That No Wax Remains Without Being Impressed By The Seal, Then It Becomes Indistinguishably One With The Seal. Similarly The Soul Becomes Completely United With God.

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.

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

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

That Which A Man Acquires By Contemplation He Should Spend In Love.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

God Cannot Know Himself Without Me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

When You Are Thwarted, It Is Your Own Attitude That Is Out Of Order

Positive Attitude

Spirituality Is Not To Be Learned By Flight From The World, Or By Running Away From Things, Or By Turning Solitary And Going Apart From The World. Rather, We Must Learn An Inner Solitude Wherever Or With Whomsoever We May Be. We Must Learn To Penetrate Things And Find God There.

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

The Shell Must Be Cracked Apart If What Is In It Is To Come Out, For If You Want The Kernel You Must Break The Shell.

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.

Do Not Cling To The Symbols, But Get To The Inner Truth!

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