Hadewijch - Earth Quotes

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For earth cannot understand heavenly wisdom. Words enough and Dutch enough can be found for all things on earth, but I do not know any Dutch or any words that answer my purpose. Although I can express everything insofar as this is possible for a human being, no Dutch can be found for all I have said to you, since none exists to express these things, so far as I know

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And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened, File: Kamas3. jpg We were one without distinction... just as a beloved may receive her lover in the full pleasure of seeing and hearing, with the one becoming one with the other I understood this Being and knew it more clearly than, by speech, reason, or sight, one can know anything that is knowable on earth

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