Every creature is a word of God.
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away, but they're not punishing you, they're freeing your soul. If you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.
God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness
There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
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.
The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.
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.
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.
The soul will bring forth Person if God laughs into her and she laughs back to him. To speak in parable, the Father laughs into the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father; and this laughter breeds liking and liking breeds joy, and joy begets love, and love begets Person, and Person begets the Holy Ghost.
The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.
Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
For then I knew my soul - every soul - has always held Him.
If the seal is pressed completely through the wax so that no wax remains without being impressed by the seal, then it becomes indistinguishably one with the seal. Similarly the soul becomes completely united with God.
Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.
Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.
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