Christian Mystics

It is my personal belief that there are many great parts of Christianity and many misinterpretations in modern (and perhaps) past Christian institutions

Anyway I just want to say that there’s a lot to be grateful for as there are many former and perhaps current Christians who bring Jesus’s teachings in a generous way.

So this thread is a celebration of all things non dogmatic, and based in love and light, the many Christian mystics and contemplatives that know God not through belief, books or, hearsay, but through reflection, contemplation, meditation and the path of Love/God.

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

– Meister Eckhart

“Everything comes from love,
all is ordained for the salvation of man,
God does nothing without this goal in mind”

-St Catherine of Siena

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”

– Thomas Merton

‘You know, I no longer govern in the way I used to. Love does everything. I am not sure if that is because no one gives me cause to reprove her, or because I have discovered that things go better in that way.” [p.657] (3)

‘The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.” (1)

St Teresa of Avila

Could you embrace that?
I said to God, ‘Let me love you.’
And he replied, ‘Which part?’
‘All of you, all of you.’ I said.

‘Dear’ God spoke, ‘You are as a mouse wanting to impregnate
a tiger who is not even in heat. It is a feat way
beyond your courage and strength.
You would run from me
if I removed my
m.ask/.’

I said to God again,
‘Beloved I need to love you – every aspect, every pore.’

And this time God said,
‘There is a hideous blemish on my body,
though it is such an infinitesimal part of my Being-
could you kiss that if it were revealed?’

‘I will try, Lord, I will try.’

And then God said,

‘That blemish is all the hatred and
cruelty in this
world.’

St Thomas of Aquinas

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The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

— Saint Teresa of Ávila

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Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.
Evagrius Ponticus (The Praktikos - 35).

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When you move silently, then you are that which God was before nature and creature, out of which He created your nature and creature.
Jakob Böhme (The Way to Christ, 1622)

Thanks sky, beautiful quotes