Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to … - Mechthild of Magdeburg

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Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?

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The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

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The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

Rest, Return, Soul, Strive, Things

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul. . . it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

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If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.

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Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.

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