If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
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There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.
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To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.
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Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.
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God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
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The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
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The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
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The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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The more we have the less we own.
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God�s gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.
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