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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.

— John Ruysbroeck The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

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We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold.

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912)

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are, and whither we are going. We come from God, and we are in exile.

Ruysbroeck the Admirable (1925)

God contemplates Himself and all things in an Eternal Now that has neither beginning nor end.

The Spiritual Espousals (1340)

God in the depths of us receives God who comes to us: it is God contemplating God.

An Anthology of Mysticism and Mystical Philosophy (1927)

Then are we ravished out of self by purified Love, even to the Face of God, freed and emptied of every event and illusion. This is the contemplative life of highest price.

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