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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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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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When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

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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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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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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

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Words derive their power from the original word.

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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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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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