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My words are strange, but those who love will understand.

— John Ruysbroeck

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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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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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