Henry Suso Quotes
Heinrich Seuse, known in English as Henry Suso, was a German Dominican mystic, preacher, and spiritual director and one of the principal figures of the Rhineland mystical tradition along with Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler. After studies at Strasbourg under Eckhart, he combined courtly poetic style with rigorous mystical theology in his Little Book of Eternal Wisdom, Life of the Servant, and Little Book of Truth. The quotes below are attributed to Henry Suso, organized by topic.
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Henry Suso on God
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“Eternal Wisdom is the bride of every faithful soul.”
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“Suffering rightly borne is the gold of the spiritual life.”
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“Solitude is the workshop where God carves the inner man.”
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“He who has lost himself for God has found everything.”
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“In the darkness beyond distinct manner of existing, all multiplicity disappears and the spirit loses what is its own. It disappears with regard to its own activity. This is the highest goal and the 'where' beyond boundaries. In this the spirituality of all spirits ends. Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness. To lose oneself forever is eternal happiness”
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“Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars . Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars”
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“In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits .”
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“It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself.”
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“Now these people who are taken within, These people who are taken within, because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing”
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Henry Suso on Love
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“Love is its own theology.”
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“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.”
Quoted in Evelyn Underhill , Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 152 -
“An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.”
Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften , Stuttgart 1907, p. 199
Henry Suso on Time
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“Be steadfast and never rest content until you have obtained the now of eternity as your present possession in this life, so far as this is possible to human infirmity.”
Quoted in Gerald Vann , The Divine Pity (1945). London: Fontana Books, 1956, p. 25