“Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are, and whither we are going. We come from God, and we are in exile.”

Quoted in Ruysbroeck the Admirable (1925) by Alfred Wautier d'Aygalliers and Fred Rothwell, p. 175

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