Achieve true prayer…
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
The gracious eternal God…
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Look into your own heart…
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 listen!
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Contemplate his passion…
Let us contemplate with the eyes of our heart, Jesus, that is, our Saviour, the Lamb without spot, how He bore therein all our sins; how heavily, all alone, He trod the wine-press, that like the grape that is pressed with all care, He, too, might be pressed in the wine-press of His Passion, and might pour upon us richly, and give us to drink, the red wine of His precious Blood, so as to make us drunk with His love. –Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Find some suitable time…
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.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
To attain true peace one…
Now, if one will attain to true peace, he must yield himself up to this spiritual destitution; he must make nothing of it; he must in all single heartedness resign himself to the holy will of God, and suffer this oppression of spirit in all patience; yes, even if it were to endure to the end of the world.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
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