John Ruysbroeck Short Quotes

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My words are strange, but those who love will understand.

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Even as God is common to all, the sun shines upon all trees

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We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold.

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God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.

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Our work is the love of God. Our satisfaction lies in submission to the Divine Embrace

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God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.

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Spiritual inebriation is this: that a man receives more sensible joy and sweetness than his heart can either contain or desire.

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Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are, and whither we are going. We come from God, and we are in exile.

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Now, if the spirit is to contemplate God with God, without intermediary, in this divine light, three things are necessary for a person.

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The incomprehensible richness and loftiness of the Divine Nature, its outpouring generosity toward all in common, fills a man with wonder.

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Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man.

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In the deeps of his ground he knows and feels nothing, in soul or body, but a singular radiance with sensible well-being and all pervading savour.

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Finally, and beyond all else, ravished out of self into the Glory of God, without limit, incomprehensible, immense, we are to enjoy Him for ever and ever

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Then are we ravished out of self by purified Love, even to the Face of God, freed and emptied of every event and illusion. This is the contemplative life of highest price.

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Even though the eagle,
King of birds,
Can with his powerful sight
Gaze steadfastly upon
The brightness of the sun;
Yet do the weaker eyes of the bat
Fail and falter in the same.

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And the Light floweth forth in similitude,
And indraweth Itself in unity;
Which we perceive, beyond the reason,
In that high point of our understanding
Which is bare and turned within.

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God is more interior to us than we are to ourselves.
His acting in us is nearer and more inward than our own actions.
God works in us from inside outwards;
creatures work on us from the outside.

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God's transcending nature must be understood as oneness and simplicity,
unscalable height and unfathomable depth,
incomprehensible breadth and infinite length,
dark silence and ferocious energy.

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