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God's nature is unspeakable
the hidden darkness of the Eternal
Light of the Eternal godhead is unknown
and shall never be known
he is pure nothing
he is neither this nor that
if you think of anything
he might be he is not that
the godhead is not a being
does not have being
does not exist as such
but is rather pure being itself
existence is God
the is-ness of all that exists is God
the godhead at its ground is utterly one
simple and undifferentiated
impersonal
this very Divine ground is also
the innermost of the human soul
the image and likeness of God's
ground is my ground
and my ground is God's ground
God's ground and the Soul's ground is one ground
the ground is by nature receptive to
nothing save only the Divine Essence
without mediation [
why do we pray
why do we fast
why do we do all our works
why are we baptized
why most important of all did God become man
I would answer
in order that God may be born in
the soul and the Soul be born in God
for that reason all the scriptures were written
for that reason God created the world
God is creating the whole
world now in this instant
what does it Avail me that this birth
of the Son of God is always happening
if it does not happen in me
there must be in the individual a response
to Grace that is an opening up to God
through a turning inward into
the vast and Silent Terrain
the Eternal now of the ground
whoever seeks God in a special
way gets the way and misses God
Who Lies hidden in it
rather through collected
inwardness of contemplation
with a bear mind
one is able to achieve the radical
detachment from multiplicity and creatures
we must detach from the imagined God
that vanishes when the idea vanishes
only with the essential God
I was asked some people shun or
company and always want to be alone
their peace depends on it and on being in church
was that the best thing
and I said no
now see why
one who was in a right state
is always in a right state
wherever they are
and with everybody
they have only God
think only of God
and all things are for them nothing but God
the best place to find God is where we left him
God is apprehended equally
in all things
and all places
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