"God is at home. We are in the far country."
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"...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."
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"When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding."
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"God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart."
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"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."
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"God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop."
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"God is at his greatest when I am at my least."
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"The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God."
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"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."
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"God is equally near in all creatures."
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"Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness."
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"The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge."
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"Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me."
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"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."
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"Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him."
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"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great."
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"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."
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"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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"When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it."
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"To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process"
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