“All things are too small to hold me,
I am so vast
In the Infinite
I reach for the Uncreated
I have
touched it,
it undoes me
wider than wide
Everything else
is too narrow
You know this well,
you who are also there.”

—  Hadewijch

The Mengeldichten (Poems in Couplets) 25-29

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