If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.Johannes Tauler
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
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To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
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You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.
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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
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