Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. - Johannes Tauler
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
- Johannes Tauler
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness. - Johannes Tauler
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then l… - Johannes Tauler
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then l…
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing. - Johannes Tauler
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. - Johannes Tauler
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. - Johannes Tauler
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground. - Johannes Tauler
As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from hi… - Johannes Tauler
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from hi…
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other … - Johannes Tauler
Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other …
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