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O du unermesslicher Schatz in deiner Fülle! […] Wie weh mir dann nach dir ist, wenn du mich schonen willst, das könnten dir alle Kreaturen nicht wirklich sagen, wenn sie meine Klage vorbringen würden, denn ich leide unmenschliche Not; Der leibliche Tod wäre mir weit willkommener […] Deswegen muss ich eine schwere Krankheit erdulden, denn du hältst mich gebunden, dies Band ist stärker, als ich es bin, Daher kann ich nicht von der Liebe frei werden. Ich rufe nach dir mit gewaltiger Sehnsucht Und kläglicher Stimme, ich warte auf dich, schweren Herzens, ich kann nicht ruhen, ich brenne Unauslöschlich in deiner heißen Liebe […] Ach, Herr, da du mir alles entzogen hast, was ich von dir habe, so laß mir doch aus Gnade jene Gabe, die du jedem Hund von Natur aus verliehen hast, nämlich, daß ich dir getreu bleibe in meiner Not Ohne jedes Aufbegehren. ↗
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There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time. ↗
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking. ↗
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind. ↗
The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. ↗
the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. ↗
