God cannot know himself without me.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

God cannot know himself without me.

The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He