Henry Suso
Henry Suso, OP was a German Dominican friar and the most popular vernacular writer of the fourteenth century. An important author in both Latin and Middle High German, he is also notable for defending Meister Eckhart's legacy after Eckhart was posthumously condemned for heresy in 1329. He died in Ulm on 25 January 1366, and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1831.
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"Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars. Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars"
"You and I do not meet on one branch or in one place. You make your way along one path and I along another. Your questions arise from human thinking, and I respond from a knowledge that is far beyond a…"
"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."
"Eternity is life that is beyond time but includes within itself all time but without a before or after. And whoever is taken into the Eternal Nothing possesses all in all and has no 'before or after'.…"
"An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian."
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