• Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

  Jan Van Ruysbroeck
  
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. knowledge
2. ourselves
3. affection
4. whither
5. because
6. potency

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile. by : Jan Van Ruysbroeck

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