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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.

Die ere thou diest - dying, then thou diest not:
Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

The Rose is without 'why' - she blooms because she blooms.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.

Naught is there mightier than God;
Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn?

The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.

Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.

Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

Do not seek God in outer space
Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world
O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.