This is that Wayless Being which all fervent interior spirits have chosen above all things, that dark stillness in which all lovers lose their way. If we could prepare ourselves through virtue in the ways I have shown, we would at once strip ourselves of our bodies and flow into the wild waves of the Sea, from which no creature could ever draw us back.


The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)

John Ruysbroeck Quotes

This is that Wayless Being which all fervent interior spirits have chosen above all things, that dark stillness in which all lovers lose their way....

This is that Wayless Being which all fervent interior spirits have chosen above all things, that dark stillness in which all lovers lose their way....

This is that Wayless Being which all fervent interior spirits have chosen above all things, that dark stillness in which all lovers lose their way....

This is that Wayless Being which all fervent interior spirits have chosen above all things, that dark stillness in which all lovers lose their way....