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"Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God."
"Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground."
"No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad."
"Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light."
"When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong."
"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."
"I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!"
"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."
"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."
"I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me."
"A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice."
"For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him."
"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."
"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."
"To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong."
"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."
"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."
"He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God."
"When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure."
"This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward."