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"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."
"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."
"God is greater than God."
"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."
"People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them."
"When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me."
"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."
"Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found."
".... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One."
"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."
"What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?"
"Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing."
"In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence."
"Nobody at any time is cut off from God."
"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."