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Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!

John of the Cross

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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Learning Perfection Progress Yourself
My sole occupation is love.
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Love Occupation One Liner
Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Body Myself Separate Soul Spirit
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
JOHN OF THE CROSS

Purity Carry Training Understand
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek Yourself
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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Delight Desire Learning Possession Spiritual True Yourself
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
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Earth God Heart Himself Live Soul World
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Evening Judgment Life Love Ourselves
Who teaches the soul if not God?
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God Soul Spiritual Teaching
Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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Complain Fragile Himself Humble Listening Talk
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
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Alone Burn Cold Growth Hot Master Soul Virtue
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
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Darkness Faith Forget God Himself Leaving Live Protection Wrong
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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Acceptance Obedience Reason Sacrifice
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
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Adversity God Joy Judgement Sadness World
God leads every soul by a separate path.
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God Leadership Path Separate
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
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Growth Love Soul Walk
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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God Human Live World Yourself
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Darkness Endurance Greatness Light Preparation
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
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Greatness Live Remark Silence Wisdom
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
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
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Earth God Human Judgement Life Love Possession Success
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Darkness God Night River Soul
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Draw Love
They say, “God told me”, or “God replied to me”. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
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God Myself Talk Time
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
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Agreement Remember Silence
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Love Yourself

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