Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
JOHN OF THE CROSSLet all find COMPASSION in YOU.
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All the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
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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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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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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
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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!
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