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"The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself."
"Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be."
"As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love."
"To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth."
"That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love."
"God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself."
"I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out."
"When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order"
"[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge."
"In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things."
"It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content."
"Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing."
"Therefore, look only for this fishhook, and you will be happily caught. The more you are caught, the more you will be liberated."
"One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be."
"You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart."
"Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God]."
"Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world."
"Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion."
"People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are."
"Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first."