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When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.
God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
There exists only the present instant ... There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now.
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.
Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.
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.
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
This then is salvation - when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.
Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
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.
Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.
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.
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 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.
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
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.
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
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.
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.
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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.
The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.
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.
Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated.
No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.
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.
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.
Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
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.
This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
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.
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.
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.
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.