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They say, “God told me”, or “God replied to me”. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

John of the Cross

Who teaches the soul if not God?
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God Soul Spiritual Teaching
If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
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Bird Lose Opportunity Yourself
If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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Care Intellectual Man Memories See Virtue
To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.
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Desire Knowledge Possession Reach Satisfaction
Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!
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Guide Love Myself Night Transformation
God leads every soul by a separate path.
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God Leadership Path Separate
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Eyes Myself See
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Darkness God Night River Soul
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Learning Perfection Progress Yourself
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
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Hands Himself Lose Man Opportunity Recovery
Silence is God’s first language.
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God Language One Liner Silence
The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
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Easy God Road Suffering Travel Willing
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
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Escape Exercise Hands Hard Himself Prayer Spiritual
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
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Glory God Seek
There is nothing better or more necessary than love.
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Better Love Necessary
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek

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