Sublime

the wise know that it will never be possible to be wise every hour, let alone every day, of their lives.

thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according t

Son essence est une continuelle transformation, la connaissance de soi-même par la perte de soi-même, c'est-à-dire un éternel devenir et jamais un être rigide et un repos : c'est pourquoi le seul impératif de vie qui se rencontre dans tous ses écrits est « deviens qui tu es ». C'est

a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth—

“God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction.” You don’t do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you’re free.

I love this sentence by the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing: “It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.”

but of finding a balance between human and Being. Mother,

Wenn zwei Gott anrufen, so ruft einer lauter. Ganz anders die Hingabe als Solipsismus der Verausgabung: Sie weitet den Raum, dehnt die

but outer purpose alone is always relative, unstable, and impermanent.