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The Path of Light
Chapter 2: The Confession of Sin (4)
For the sake of things unloved and things loved have I sinned these many times; and never have I thought that I must surrender everything and depart. They whom I love not, they whom I love, I myself, shall be no more, naught shall remain. All the things whereof I have feeling shall pass away into a memory; like the vision of a dream, all departs, and is seen no more. The many whom I love or love not pass away while I stand here; only the dire sin wrought for their sake remains before me. I understood not that I was but a chance comer, and through madness, love, or hatred I have wrought many a sin. Unceasingly through night and day the waning of vital force increases; must
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XVII (5)
Therefore with foresight it is well I arm me, That, if the dearest place be taken from me, I may not lose the others by my songs. Down through the wor...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (1)
"O thou who art beyond the sacred river," Turning to me the point of her discourse, That edgewise even had seemed to me so keen, She recommenced,...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 42: That by indiscretion in this, men shall keep discretion in all other things; and surely else never (2)
For surely I trow I should rather come to discretion in them by such a heedlessness, than by any busy beholding to the same things, as I would by that...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVII (2)
Then reigned within my lofty fantasy One crucified, disdainful and ferocious In countenance, and even thus was dying. Around him were the great...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 11: That a man should weigh each thought and each stirring after that it is, and always eschew recklessness in venial sin
I SAY not this for that I trow that thou, or any other such as I speak of, be guilty and cumbered with any such sins; but for that I would that thou...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (42-51)
Sings to me in organ tones, 'To him shall we return.' Like a water-lily seek life there! Yea, like that drawer of water, at the risk of life, Water...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XV (1)
A will benign, in which reveals itself Ever the love that righteously inspires, As in the iniquitous, cupidity, Silence imposed upon that dulcet...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto III (6)
After I had my body lacerated By these two mortal stabs, I gave myself Weeping to Him, who willingly doth pardon. Horrible my iniquities had been;...
The Masnavi
Prologue (41-49)
O Iover, 'twas love that gave life to Mount Sinai, When "it quaked, and Moses fell down in a swoon." Did my Beloved only touch me with his lips, I...
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (161-170)
I have never tasted wine sweeter than this poison, No health can be sweeter than this sickness! No devotion is better than this sin (of love), Years...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXX (5)
The ice, that was about my heart congealed, To air and water changed, and in my anguish Through mouth and eyes came gushing from my breast. She, on...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI (3)
Never to thee presented art or nature Pleasure so great as the fair limbs wherein I was enclosed, which scattered are in earth. And if the highest...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXX (7)
So low he fell, that all appliances For his salvation were already short, Save showing him the people of perdition. For this I visited the gates of de...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII (1)
The while among the verdant leaves mine eyes I riveted, as he is wont to do Who wastes his life pursuing little birds, My more than Father said unto...
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon VII: Outward And Inward Morality (15)
This passage from nothingness to real being, this quitting of oneself is a birth accompanied by pain, for by it natural love is excluded. All grief...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (2)
Lo! here may men see what a privy pressing of love may purchase of our Lord, before all other works that man may think. And yet I grant well, that...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto X (4)
"And if," continuing his first discourse, "They have that art," he said, "not learned aright, That more tormenteth me, than doth this bed. But fifty t...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII (4)
If sooner were the power exhausted in thee Of sinning more, than thee the hour surprised Of that good sorrow which to God reweds us, How hast thou com...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXX (7)
"Less shame doth wash away a greater fault," The Master said, "than this of thine has been; Therefore thyself disburden of all sadness, And make accou...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (4)
But what thereof? Came she therefore down from the height of desire into the deepness of her sinful life, and searched in the foul stinking fen and du...
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