Hadewijch: Quotes about the soul

Hadewijch was 13th-century Dutch poet and mystic. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

Hadewijch: 32 quotes 1 like

“In the intimacy of the One,
Those souls are pure and inwardly naked,
without images, without figures,
As if liberated from time, uncreated,
Freed from their limits in silent latitude”

Hadewijch

Mengeldichten 17, in A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages, p. 478.
The Mengeldichten (Poems in Couplets) 17-24

Soul , Time

“They who stand ready to content Love are also eternal and unfathomable. For their conversation is in heaven, and their souls follow everywhere their Beloved who is unfathomable”

Hadewijch

P. Mommaers, Hadewijch: Writer, Beguine, Love Mystic, p. 82.

Love , Soul

“Now understand the deepest essence of your soul, what 'soul' is. Soul is a being that can be beheld by God and by which, again, God can be beheld. Soul is also a being that wishes to content God … The soul is a bottomless abyss in which God suffices to himself; and his own self-sufficiency ever finds fruition to the full in this soul, as the soul, for its part, ever does in him. Soul is a way for the passage of God from his depths to his liberty; and God is a way for the passage of the soul into its liberty, that is, into his inmost depths, which cannot be touched except by the soul's abyss.”

Hadewijch

Letter XVIII.
Letters

God , Way , Soul , Understanding

“Where the abyss of his wisdom is, he will teach you what he is, and with what wondrous sweetness the loved one and the Beloved dwell one in the other, and how they penetrate each other in such a way that neither of the two distinguishes himself from the other. But they abide in one another in fruition, mouth in mouth, heart in heart, body in body, and soul in soul, while one sweet divine nature flows through them both and being in each other they are both one and they remain completely one -- yes, and remain so forever.”

Hadewijch

Letter IX.
Letters

Love , Wisdom , Way , Soul