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He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.
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Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime
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The Cross on Golgotha
Thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thine heart
It be set up again
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Travel within thyself!
The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought,
cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.
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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals
Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
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So high above all things that be.
Is God uplifted, man can dare.
No utterance: he prayeth best.
When Silence is his sum of prayer
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I say it speeds thee not
That Christ rose from the grave,
So long as thou art still
To death and sin a slave.
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If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside
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No ray of Light can shine
if severed from its source.
Without my inner Light
I lose my course.
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A Loaf holds many grains of corn
And many myriad drops the Sea:
So is God's Oneness Multitude
And that great Multitude are we.
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All Heaven is within thee, Man,
And all of Hell within thy heart:
What thou dost choose and will to have,
That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.
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If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea
Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be
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The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.
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The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
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All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.
You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning
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In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send,
The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.
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The Thought and Deed of Deity
Are of such richness and extent
That It remaineth to Itself
An Undiscovered Continent.
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Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;—
The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?
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If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art
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Who would expect it so?
From darkness light is brought,
Life rises out of Death,
And Something comes from Naught.
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How short our span!
If you once realized how brief,
you would refrain
from causing any beast or man
the smallest grief, the slightest pain.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly
As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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God is an utter Nothingness,
Beyond the touch of Time and Place:
The more thou graspest after Him,
The more he fleeth thy embrace.
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True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground
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A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,
Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?
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Born:
December 25, 1624
Died:
July 9, 1677
(aged 52)
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