139 (I. 24)
THOU MUST BE NAUGHT, WILL NAUGHT
| If thou art Somewhat to thyself, If Somewhat thou dost love and will, If Somewhat knowest, Somewhat hast— Thou carriest thy Burden still. |
140 (I. 58)
SELF-SEEKING
| If seeking God thou seekest Rest, Then is thy reckoning out of trim: God's hireling art thou, not His child, Thou seekest thine own Self, not Him. |
141 (II. 57)
MAN MUST GROW FREE FROM HIMSELF
| Grow free from self, from all created things grow free, Then God will graft His Godlike nature on to thee. |
142 (I. 143)
'TIS SELFHOOD THAT DAMNS
| Could but the Devil quit his His-ness, thereupon The Devil thou wouldst see sitting upon God's throne |
143 (V. 32)
SELFWILL RUINS ALL
| If even in Christ himself there were Selfwill at all, Despite his Blessedness, believe me, he would fall. |
144 (I. 138)
THE MORE THOU GOEST OUT, THE MORE GOD COMETH IN
| The more thyself out of thyself Thou canst dischannel and outpour, The more must God flow into thee With all His Godhead more and more. |
145 (II. 140)
SELF-NULLIFYING
| Naught bringeth thee beyond thyself So surely as Self-nullity: The more thou canst annul thyself The more thou hast of Deity. |
146 (II. 136)
ABANDONMENT
| Go out—and so God goeth in; Die to thyself—thou hast begun To live to God; Be not—He is; Do naught—His bidding's done. |
147 (V. 220)
HOW GOD IS FOUND
| Seekest thou God, then must thou, Man, First lose thy Self-identity, Nor ever find again the trace Of Self in all eternity. |
148 (V. 186)
OWNHOOD IS THE CAUSE OF ALL EVIL
| Communion engendereth Peace; But Ownhood giveth rise To Persecution, War and Strife, And all Calamities. |
149 (V. 238)
"MINE" AND "THINE" ARE DAMNABLE
| Two words, and nothing else in all the world, combine To plunge thee into Hell—two hateful words, Mine, Thine. |
150 (II. 72)
HE WHO CAN SING WITH THE ANGELS
| He who can soar above himself One instant at the most, He too can sing the Gloria With the angeleic host. |
151 (V. 33)
WHEN GOD MOST DELIGHTS TO BE WITH US
| God, whose extreme delight it is To dwell with thee, doth come Most willingly into thy house When thou art not at home. |
152 (I. 46)
THE BLESSED UNTHING
| I am a blessed Thing if I Can but unthing myself, forgo All my community with things, My cognizance of things unknow. |
153 (I. 92)
HE WHO IS WHOLLY DEIFIED
| Who is as were he not, nor yet had come to be, He is become—O Happiness!—sheer Deity. |
154 (IV. 139)
THE HAPPY DROWNING
| If thou dost sail thy little ship Upon the Sea of Deity, It were indeed a happy chance Shouldst thou be drowned in that great Sea. |
155 (II. 92)
THE MYSTICAL ABANDONMENT
| Abandonment ensnareth God: But the Abandonment supreme, Which few there be can comprehend, Is to abandon even Him. |
156 (VI. 172)
IN THE SEA NO DROP IS DISTINGUISHABLE
| If thou canst designate a drop Lost in the Sea's immensity, Then wilt thou in the Sea of God Divine my soul's identity. |
157 (II. 25)
THOU MAKEST THY OWN DISQUIET
| Thee into thy disquiet nor God nor Creature brings, Thou dost disquiet thyself caring for many things. |
158 (III. 177)
THE LONG MARTYRDOM
| The Martyrs fare exceeding well: Swift passage through the mortal fires, Then God's embrace. But we lifelong Are martyred. How?—By our Desires. |
159 (I. 158)
WHO DRINKETH THE SPRING OF LIFE?
| Fain wouldst thou drink the Spring of Life? Then must thou first Sweat out, whilst here upon this earth, Thy proper thirst. |
160 (II. 197)
SELF-ABNEGATION
| Lord, take the Crown away! I know not aught of Mine: How can it rightly then be mine and yet not Thine! |
161 (V. 229)
MEASUREMENT IS THE FALL
| Take not the measure of thy goodness—it is gone As soon as it is self-confessed and thought upon. |
162 (II. 133)
RESIGNATION
| Should God forbid me Heaven, it pleaseth me as well Here to abide on earth or take my place in Hell. |
163 (V. 367)
READY FOR ALL
| He is the proper Hero who remains unshaken Whether by God befriended or by God forsaken. |
164 (V. 105)
HEAVEN CAN BE STOLEN
| Who, hidden, doeth good; secret, bestoweth wealth: He is a Master-thief and stealeth Heaven by stealth. |
165 (I. 39)
IMPERFECT ABANDONMENT
| His Self is not all given to God who cannot dwell Even in Hell itself and find in Hell no Hell. |
166 (VI. 170)
TWO WAYS OF LOSING ONE'S SELF
| So I may yet be lost? O ay! If lost in death, loss limitless. But if thou lose thyself in God Thy loss is then all happiness. |