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One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.


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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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Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.



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I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.



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From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.



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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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I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.



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God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.



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I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.





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