Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man. - John of Ruysbroeck

See, this hidden brightness in which one contemplates everything that one desires according to the way of emptiness of spirit, this brightness is so great that the loving contemplative neither sees nor feels anything in his ground in which he rests except an incomprehensible light. And according to the simple bareness which encompasses all things, he finds and feels himself to be that very light by which he sees, and nothing else.

Spiritual inebriation is this: that a man receives more sensible joy and sweetness than his heart can either contain or desire.

There is a distinction and differentiation, According to our reason, Between God and the Godhead, Between action and rest. The fruitful nature of the Persons (Trinity) Ever worketh in a living differentiation. But the simple Being of God, According to the nature thereof, Is an eternal Rest of God And of all created things