Mechthild Quotes & Sayings

Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

Question your tea spoons. — Georges Perec

I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary. — Carlos Alomar

A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God? — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us. — Diego Maradona

Where there is growth however, there is increase — Sunday Adelaja

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's unspeakable glory
that incomprehensible wonder
the tender caress between God and the soul ... the unmingled joy of union, the living love of eternity as it now is and evermore shall be. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious. — Charles Shackleford

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes. — Vivienne Westwood

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine? — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? — Mitch Albom

I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

With their ever-available loving hearts, they bow before God and bend down under all this pain and are lower than all the other creatures on earth. Pride is rare among them.3 Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love ... — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Prayer, said Mechthild of Magdeburg, brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a narrow room where they speak much of love: and here the rules which govern that meeting are laid down by a master's hand. — Anonymous

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second. — Stephen King

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. — Walt Disney

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit. — Michael Dirda

Our right to be here is weaker by the minute. — David Mitchell

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it ... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg

Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth. — Bodhidharma

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me. — Mechthild Of Magdeburg