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„Morzem staje się każda kropla, która dociera do morza, a dusza staje się Bogiem, kiedy dociera do Boga.”

„Czy wiecie, żeśmy dłużej niżeli Bóg żyli? Bóg jest wieczny, a przecież nie żył ani chwili.”

“How short our span!
If you once realized how brief,
you would refrain
from causing any beast or man
the smallest grief, the slightest pain.”

“The World doth not imprison thee.
Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,
thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.”

“The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.”

“Ah, were men's voices like the wood-birds' melody— Each happy note distinct, but all in harmony!”

“Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses,
My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence”

“A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,
Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?”

“The nearest way to God
Leads through love's open door;
The path of knowledge is
Too slow for evermore”

“Who would expect it so?
From darkness light is brought,
Life rises out of Death,
And Something comes from Naught.”

“If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside”

“True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground”

“No man has known perfect felicity,
Until his otherness is drowned in unity”

“Though Christ a thousand times
in Bethleham be born
And not within thyself,
Thy soul will be forlorn”

“No ray of Light can shine
if severed from its source.
Without my inner Light
I lose my course.”

“Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different”

“The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all,
Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled
By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still
That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill”

“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”

“In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send,
The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.”

“If otherwise, the All remains
Asunder-riven manyness”

“The All proceedeth from the One,
And into One must All regress”

“The vengeful God of wrath and punishment
is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
That makes me fail.”

“O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish,
You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.”

“The Cross on Golgotha
Thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thine heart
It be set up again”

“Unless you find paradise at your own center,
there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter”