He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Emanuel Swedenborg
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Every creature is a word of God.
Emanuel Swedenborg
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Emanuel Swedenborg
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books.
Emanuel Swedenborg
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.
Emanuel Swedenborg
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Emanuel Swedenborg
The more we have the less we own.
Emanuel Swedenborg
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
Emanuel Swedenborg
To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it.
Emanuel Swedenborg
If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. And likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
Emanuel Swedenborg
God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.
Emanuel Swedenborg
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Emanuel Swedenborg
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
Emanuel Swedenborg
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
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