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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
 Johannes Tauler

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
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 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
 Johannes Tauler
God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.
 Johannes Tauler
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
 Johannes Tauler