Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, I remained in a state of oneness with my Beloved, so that I melted into him and ceased to be myself what 'soul' is. Soul is a being that can be beheld by God and by which, again, God can be beheld. Soul is also a being that wishes to content God … The soul is a bottomless abyss in which God suffices to himself; And I was transformed and absorbed in the spirit and his own self-sufficiency ever finds fruition to the full in this soul, as the soul, for its part, ever does in him. Soul is a way for the passage of God from his depths to his liberty; and God is a way for the passage of the soul into its liberty, that is, into his inmost depths, which cannot be touched except by the soul's abyss.


Letter XVIII.

Hadewijch Quotes

Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, I remained in a state of oneness with my Beloved, so that I melted into him and ceased to be myself...

Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, I remained in a state of oneness with my Beloved, so that I melted into him and ceased to be myself...

Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, I remained in a state of oneness with my Beloved, so that I melted into him and ceased to be myself...

Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, I remained in a state of oneness with my Beloved, so that I melted into him and ceased to be myself...