“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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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.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
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.