A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.Johannes Tauler
You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
Johannes Tauler
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
Johannes Tauler
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
Johannes Tauler
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler
Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.
Johannes Tauler
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