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Jakob Bohme Quotes: The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .
         

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .


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A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.



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In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

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For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.


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What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.



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Whatever the self describes, describes the self.



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You are at enmity with yourself.



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A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.





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