Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
GIORDANO BRUNOAll things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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