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Henry Suso Quotes

1290–1366 Germany

Germany
Non-fiction authors
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Also known as: Blessed Henry Suso

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An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits.

Now these people who are taken within, because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing

Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars.

Be steadfast and never rest content until you have obtained the now of eternity as your present possession in this life, so far as this is possible to human infirmity.

No one can explain this to another just with words. One knows it by experiencing it.

Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness.

It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself.

In a detached person nothing merely temporal is born in possessiveness. His eyes are opened. He becomes fully aware and, receiving his blessed existence and life, is one with Him; for all things are here one in the One.

Eternity is life that is beyond time but includes within itself all time but without a before or after. And whoever is taken into the Eternal Nothing possesses all in all and has no 'before or after'. Indeed a person taken within today would not have been there for a shorter period from the point of view of eternity than someone who had been taken within a thousand years ago.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Suso (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.