That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss. Gregory of Nyssa (circa 335 – 395)
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “To assist human beings in their search…”
To assist human beings in their search for wisdom was the purpose of the incarnation. Gregory of Nyssa (circa 335 – 395)
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “A balanced happiness, a steady tranquility…”
There are varying degrees of spiritual illumination, which accounts both for the varying outlooks to be found among mystics and for the different kinds of glimpses among aspirants. All illuminations and all glimpses free the man from his negative qualities and base nature, but in the latter case only temporarily. He is able as a result, to see into his […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “Someone who has purified the eyes of his soul…”
When someone whose mind is but partially developed sees something clothed in some semblance of beauty, he believes that this thing is beautiful in its own nature… but someone who has purified the eyes of his soul and is trained to see beautiful things makes use of the visible as a springboard to rise to the contemplation of the spiritual. […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “It is there that God dwells…”
Finally the soul, which has travelled by these ways towards the things that are above and has abandoned everything that is accessible to human nature, penetrates into the sanctuary of the knowledge of God that is wrapped on all sides in darkness. There, as everything perceptible and intelligible has been left outside, there remains for the soul’s contemplation only what […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “You alone have been made the image of Reality…”
Know to what extent the Creator has honored you above all the rest of creation. The sky is not an image of God, nor is the moon, nor the sun, nor the beauty of the stars, nor anything of what can be seen in creation. You alone have been made the image of the Reality that transcends all understanding, the […]
Gregory of Nyssa Quote – “Sharing in the divine fullness…”
Sharing in the divine fullness is such that it makes whoever achieves it ever greater, more illimitable, so as never to cease growing, because the spring of all reality flows ceaselessly. The being of anyone who shares in it is increased in grandeur by all that springs up within, so that the capacity for receiving grows along with the abundance […]