As the worm, crawling in the dust of the earth, cannot rise like the eagle above the clouds, so the self-willing thought of man, wandering in the labyrinth of conflicting opinions, does not enter the realm of eternal truth. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
Neither animal nor reasoning man can create God, but the lilybud of divinity unfolds itself in man by its own power. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
Paradise is still in the world, but a man is not in Paradise unless he is born again of God; in that case he stands in his new birth. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
The true heaven is everywhere, even in the very place where you stand and go. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
Scholar: “Loving master, I can no more endure anything should divert me, how shall I find the nearest way to (the Divine)?” Master: “Where the way is hardest there walk thou, and take up what the world rejecteth; and what the world doth, that do not thou. Walk contrary to the world in all things. And then thou comest the […]
I, God, press through your branches into the sap and bear fruit on your boughs. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
Follow my advice, and leave off your difficult seeking for the knowledge of God by means of your selfish will and reasoning. Throw away that imaginary reason, which your mortal self thinks to possess, and your will shall then be the will of God. If He finds His will to be in His, then will is will become manifest in […]
When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature, and from that which is visible, and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that Eternal One which is God himself. And then thou shalt perceive and feel in thy interior the highest virtue of love… Whosoever finds it, finds all things. Jacob Boehme […]
It is not “man” in the abstract who recognizes anything. It is always a certain principle, having become active in him, that recognizes its own counterpart in external nature, when it comes in contact with it. Only he in whom is light can see the light; only the element of love can feel love; only the divinity in man can […]
He to whom time is like eternity, and eternity like time, is free. Jacob Boehme (1575 – 1624)
