{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw03.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw03.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw03.htm","text":"54 (I. 7)\n MAN MUST GO BEYOND GOD\n| Where is my hiding-place? Where there's nor I nor Thou. Where is my final goal towards which I needs must press? Where there is nothing. Whither shall I journey now? Still farther on than God\u2014into a Wilderness. | \n55 (I. 199)\n GOD BEYOND THE CREATURE\n| Go, where thou canst not go; see, where light never breaks; Hear, where no sound is heard: then art thou where God speaks. | \n56 (IV. 23)\n DIVINE CONTEMPLATION\n| Who in this mortal life would see The Light that is beyond all light, Beholds it best by faring forth Into the darkness of the Night. | \n57 (II. 6)\n NOTHING IS THE BEST CONSOLATION\n| Best Consolation is in Naught. If God should quench His shine, then dare In naked Nothingness to find Thy Consolation in despair. | \n58 (I. 126)\n DESIRE EXPECTS FULFILMENT\n| If thou hast still for God a yearning and desire, Then doth He not embrace thee yet, whole and entire. | \n59 (I. 76)\n TO WILL NAUGHT IS TO BE LIKE GOD\n| Willing and seeking naught, God is eternal peace: Willest thou likewise naught, thy peace is even as His. | \n60 (II. 248)\n STILLNESS IS LIKE UNTO THE ETERNAL NAUGHT\n| Stillness and Loneliness are liker naught than Naught: These willeth then my Will, if my Will willeth aught. | \n61 (I. 98)\n THE DEAD WILL RULETH\n| God needs must do my Will, if Will in me is dead: I write for Him His Paradigm and Copy-head. | \n62 (V. 207)\n THE GREATEST DEED\n| The greatest Deed that thou canst do For God, is to be deedless\u2014best, Suffering, to suffer unto God, And, resting, unto Him to rest. | \n63 (V. 195)\n GOD IS FOUND IN IDLENESS\n| Who sits in utter Idleness Shall come much sooner to the goal Than he who runneth after God With sweat of body and of soul. | \n64 (IV. 31)\n THE BLESSED IDLENESS\n| Both John upon the breast and Mary at the feet Do nought but pass the happy hours away in sweet Love-dalliance with God.\u2014I would not stir at all, Could I be idle so, even though the sky should fall. | \n65 (I. 171)\n GOD IS FOUND BY NOT SEEKING\n| God is not here nor there. Thou seekest where He may be found? Bound be thy hands and bound thy feet, Body and soul be bound. | \n66 (I. 240)\n THE PRAYER OF SILENCE\n| So high above all things that be Is God uplifted, man can dare No utterance: he prayeth best When Silence is his sum of prayer. | \n67 (II. 63)\n THE DEAF HEARETH THE WORD\n| Unto my hearing momently the Eternal Word doth come \u2014Believe it, friend, or not\u2014when I am deaf and dumb. | \n68 (I. 239)\n GOD IS PRAISED IN SILENCE\n| Thinkest thou, foolish man, that with thy clapping tongue Praise of the silent Godhead fitly can be sung? | \n69 (V. 366)\n GOD'S LUTE\n| A Heart, as God would have it, wholly still and mute. Loves to be played upon by Him\u2014it is His lute. | \n70 (II. 169)\n SAMENESS BEHOLDETH GOD\n| Be naught as all and all as naught, then art thou proved Worthy to see the face of God, the Well-Beloved. | \n71 (I. 125)\n SAMENESS HATH NO PAIN\n| To whom all things are one, to him all things are well, No matter though he lie deep in the pit of Hell. | \n72 (II. 134)\n SAMENESS\n| The man who hath no fatherland, Who walks a stranger everywhere, Though he abide in Hell he'll find His darling country even there. | \n73 (II. 42)\n NO HARM IN WHAT IS UNDERNEATH\n| Who sits above the mountain-tops And high above the clouds doth ride, Cares little when the lightnings flame And the loud-crashing thunders chide. | \n74 (V. 136)\n ALL IS ALIKE TO THE WISE MAN\n| All things are one to the Wise Man; He sitteth peacefully and still; Is his will thwarted, none the less All things befall as God doth will. | \n75 (V. 85)\n WHO KNOWETH NAUGHT IS AT PEACE\n| Had Adam never plucked the Tree Of Knowledge and grown wise, He then had dwelt eternally At peace in Paradise. | \n76 (I. 85)\n HOW GOD'S WORD IS HEARD\n| If thou wouldst hear the Eternal Word speak unto thee, First must thou wholly lose the hearing faculty. | \n77 (II. 8)\n MAN LEARNETH BY BEING SILENT\n| Be silent, silent, dearest one, Only be silent utterly. Then far beyond thy farthest wish God will show goodness unto thee. | \n78 (II. 19)\n THE HIGHEST IS STILLNESS\n| Doing is good; far better prayer; But best of all if thou dost come Into the presence of the Lord With quiet footfall, still and dumb. | \n79 (V. 221)\n THE DEAD HEAR NOT\n| The man who's dead unto himself Rests tranquil in his thought, Though all the world speak ill of him. How so?\u2014Dead men hear naught. | \n80 (I. 134)\n NOT PERFECTLY DEAD\n| If over this and that thou makest such a stir, Then art thou not yet laid with God in the sepulchre. | \n81 (II. 214)\n WORKS HAVE LIKE WORTH\n| Have no distinctions. Angels would at God's behest As lief cart dung as play their harps or take their rest. | \n82 (II. 152)\n THE DIVINEST OF ALL\n| Naught more divine than this\u2014whatever the event, In this world or the next, to be indifferent. | \n83 (VI. 191)\n WORLD FORSAKEN, LITTLE FORSAKEN\n| The whole great World is naught. Little has thou resigned, Though thou hast banished all the World out of thy mind. | \n84 (VI. 142)\n ON FORSAKING THE WORLD\n| Need oftentime determines deed; And thou dost leave the world, maybe, Thy heart foreboding that the world Which thou dost leave is leaving thee. |","title":"III THE STILL WILDERNESS","type":"page"}