Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., read more

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor
is bent by any prayers.
[Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla
prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.

Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known read more

Bone and Skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.