"Compassion is where peace and justice kiss"
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"The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me."
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"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."
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"What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action."
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"If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God."
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"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."
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"Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure."
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"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction."
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"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
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"People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are."
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"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."
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"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'."
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"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."
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"To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God."
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"The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction."
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"Every creature is a word of God."
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"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."
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"Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul. If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet."
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"Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness"
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"God cannot know himself without me."
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