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"To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life."
"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."
"The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth."
"A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God."
"Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found."
"Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue."
"I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth."
"The more we have the less we own."
"By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth."
"God is bound to act, to pour himself out (into thee) as soon as ever he shall find thee ready."
"Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much landed property and many goods for his own sake so that he might save his soul. Then I thought: 'How little and how insignificant is what you have let go of! It is blindness and foolishness for you to continue looking at all you've let go of. If, however, you've let go of yourself, then you've really let go.'"
"The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering."
"Love is the root of all joy and sorrow."
"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. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay."
"Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones."
"It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being."
"We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born."
"Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered."
"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage."
"A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God."