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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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
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What is truth? Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I would keep the truth and turn aside from 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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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
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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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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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