One dies to one’s self…
In the measure that a man dies to himself and grows out of himself, in the same measure does God, who is our Life, enter into him.
–Johannes Tauler (1300–1361)
To discern what….
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
God is infinite and…
God is infinite and without end, but the soul’s desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
If you fall…
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
Cherish this deep silence within…
Become a fertile ground for the divine birth. Cherish this deep silence within, nourish it frequently.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
God draws them…
[God] draws them so mysteriously unto Himself and His own blessedness; their spirits are so lovingly attracted, while they are at the same time so filled and transfused with the Godhead, that they lose all their diversity in the Unity of the Godhead.
–Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361)
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