Johannes Tauler

“He who seeks God in a definite mode accepts the mode and misses God, who is hidden in that mode.”

“One must be so dis-impassioned that one is not moved by any created thing.”

“In the midst of the world, we must preserve our recollection and keep our soul in great peace and tranquility.”

“We must sink into the abyss of our own nothingness, and then we shall find God.”

“The soul that would really be a spiritual person must be a desert, not trodden by the foot of man, but given over to God.”

“God is always ready, but we are very unready.”

“A man should be so emptied of self that he has no thought for himself in any matter.”

“God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here: the less you reach for him, the more you find him.”

“God is an unutterable sigh in the innermost depths of the soul.”

“The soul has two eyes. One is the power of vision of the world, but the other is the power of vision of God.”

“When the Spirit has come, It will surely prepare Its own dwelling.”

“If you give up your will, you have given up the whole world.”

“The more a man is united to God, the more he is united to all things.”

“The friends of God are not those who are always speaking of God, but those who are silent and work, and who do what is God’s will.”

“True and perfect poverty is an inward thing and consists in this: that a man so renounce his own will that he wills nothing but what God wills.”