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God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
Spiritual inebriation is this: that a man receives more sensible joy and sweetness than his heart can either contain or desire.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
The incomprehensible richness and loftiness of the Divine Nature, its outpouring generosity toward all in common, fills a man with wonder.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
God loves without limit and this puts a loving person most securely at peace.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
Now, if the spirit is to contemplate God with God, without intermediary, in this divine light, three things are necessary for a person.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
In the deeps of his ground he knows and feels nothing, in soul or body, but a singular radiance with sensible well-being and all pervading savour.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
God is a flowing and ebbing sea which ceaselessly flows out into all his beloved according to their needs and merits and which flows back with all those upon whom he has bestowed his gifts in heaven and on earth, together with all they possess or are capable of.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
In this return in love in the divine ground every divine way and activity and all the attributes of the persons are swallowed up in the rich compass of the essential unity. All the divine means and all conditions, and all living images which are reflected in the mirror of truth, lapse in the onefold and ineffable waylessness beyond reason. Here there is nothing but eternal rest in the fruitive embrace of outpouring love.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
Secondly, he must cleave to God within by devoted intention and love, just like a kindled, blazing fire that can no longer be extinguished. During the time that he feels himself to be in this state, he can contemplate.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)
You should watch the wise bee and do as it does. It dwells in unity, in the congregation of its fellows, and goes forth, not in the storm, but in calm and still weather, in the sunshine, towards all those flowers in which sweetness may be found.
The Spiritual Espousals (1340)