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My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it would not be my friend that I loved but myself. I should love my friend on account of his own goodness and virtues and account of all that he is in himself. Only if I love my friend in this way do I love him properly.
God is not good, or else he could do better.
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?
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.
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.
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward [God].
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
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.
Words derive their power from the original word.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
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