They can be like the sun, words.
They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

Juan de la Cruz

Tags: words sun language



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Happiness is not a destination, it's a method of travel.

Juan de la Cruz


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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human successes, but on how well we have loved.

Juan de la Cruz


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I came into the unknown
and stayed there unknowing
rising beyond all science.

I did not know the door
but when I found the way,
unknowing where I was,
I learned enormous things,
but what I felt I cannot say,
for I remained unknowing,
rising beyond all science.

It was the perfect realm
of holiness and peace.
In deepest solitude
I found the narrow way:
a secret giving such release
that I was stunned and stammering,
rising beyond all science.

I was so far inside,
so dazed and far away
my senses were released
from feelings of my own.
My mind had found a surer way:
a knowledge of unknowing,
rising beyond all science.

And he who does arrive
collapses as in sleep,
for all he knew before
now seems a lowly thing,
and so his knowledge grows so deep
that he remains unknowing,
rising beyond all science.

The higher he ascends
the darker is the wood;
it is the shadowy cloud
that clarified the night,
and so the one who understood
remains always unknowing,
rising beyond all science.

This knowledge by unknowing
is such a soaring force
that scholars argue long
but never leave the ground.
Their knowledge always fails the source:
to understand unknowing,
rising beyond all science.

This knowledge is supreme
crossing a blazing height;
though formal reason tries
it crumbles in the dark,
but one who would control the night
by knowledge of unknowing
will rise beyond all science.

And if you wish to hear:
the highest science leads
to an ecstatic feeling
of the most holy Being;
and from his mercy comes his deed:
to let us stay unknowing,
rising beyond all science.

Juan de la Cruz

Tags: agnosia occam-rolls-in-his-grave wu-wei



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In the evening we shall be examined on love.

Juan de la Cruz


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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

Juan de la Cruz


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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.

Juan de la Cruz


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I shall sully the purity of your floor, said he...

Juan de la Cruz


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Love is the measure by which we shall be judged.

Juan de la Cruz

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Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love.

Juan de la Cruz

Tags: love spiritual



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