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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: First Book: Chapter XIV. Of the Renunciation of Self Will

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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From this obedience there springs the renunciation of one's own will and one's own opinion, for none can submit his own will in all things to the will of another, save the obedient man: though one may obey in outward things and yet remain self-willed. The forsaking of one's own will causes a man to live without preference for either this or that, in doing or leaving undone, in those things which are strange and special in the saints, in their precepts and in their practice; but it makes him to…

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