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Enrico Suso, chiamato anche Amandus, nome adottato nei suoi scritti, e Heinrich Seuse in tedesco , è stato un mistico tedesco.

Proclamato beato nel 1831 da papa Gregorio XVI, è festeggiato il 2 marzo.

✵ 21. Marzo 1295 – 25. Gennaio 1366
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Enrico Suso frasi celebri

“Sii benedetta tu [Maria], aurora nascente, sopra tutte le creature, e benedetto sia il prato fiorito di rose rosse del tuo bei viso, ornato con il fiore rosso rubino dell'Eterna Sapienza!”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

“Come dare una forma a ciò che non ne ha? Nessun confronto potrebbe aiutarci. Tuttavia, al fine di cacciare delle immagini per mezzo di immagini, io voglio mostrarti, con la figura di un dato linguaggio, per quanto almeno ciò è possbile, questo senso vuoto di immagini.”

Enrico Suso

citato in Henri Daniel-Rops, Rimbaud, traduzione di G.L. Pizzolari, Morcelliana Brescia 1947

“Come quando una mamma tiene ritto in grembo il suo poppante, ed egli con il capo e i movimenti del suo piccolo corpo si protende verso di lei che l'accarezza, e intanto il piccino manifesta la gioia del suo cuore con gesti e sorrisi, così accadeva che spesso il cuore nel corpo gli si elevasse verso il gaudio della sapienza eterna, in un profondo anelito dell'anima sua. E allora pensava: "O mio Dio, se ora una regina fosse mia sposa, la mia anima ne sarebbe orgogliosa, ma adesso sei tu la sovrana del mio cuore, sei tu colei che dispensa ogni grazia! In te ho ricchezze a sufficienza, potenza quanta ne voglio. Di tutto ciò che la terra possiede non c'è nulla che io vorrei!". E così meditando, il suo volto era lieto, i suoi occhi felici, il suo cuore giubilante, e tutti i suoi sensi interiori cantavano il Super Salutem, eccetera, tu gioia e bellezza del mio cuore, tu che superi ogni felicità e ogni bellezza, poiché con te mi è venuta la felicità e ogni bene ho posseduto in te e con te.”

Enrico Suso

citato in Martin Buber,Confessioni estatiche, Adelphi, 2010

“Gli strani pensieri [sui sacramenti] provengono solo da grossolanità dei sensi, che concepiscono le cose divine e soprannaturali sul modello delle cose terrene e naturali, ma non è così.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

“Il più piccolo supplizio [in Purgatorio] è più grande di quello che ciascun martire subì sulla terra.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

“L'anima che vuole ricevermi interiormente, nell'intimità segreta di una vita ritirata e gioire dolcemente, deve essere prima purificata dalle sue mancanze, ornata di virtù, drappeggiata di libertà, coperta con le rose rosse dell'amore ardente, disseminata delle belle viole dell'umile sottomissione e dei bianchi gigli della vera purezza.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Frasi su cuore di Enrico Suso

“La passione del cuore è di tale natura che nessuno la conosce bene, se non chi l'ha provata.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

“Sopra ogni cosa fa male che noi dobbiamo per tanto tempo essere privati della gioiosa visione [di Dio]; questo annienta il cuore, il senso, il coraggio.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

“Voi tutti, cuori puri, lasciate che vi penetri nel cuore il sangue puro, color delle rose, che inondò così la pura Madre.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Enrico Suso Frasi e Citazioni

“La fame spirituale e la devozione attuale più che l'abitudine devono spingerti verso di me”

Enrico Suso

Dio
Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Su Dio , Sulla fame

“Più è caro l'Amato più è amabile e dolce [verso di noi] e più sono insopportabili la sua perdita e la sua morte.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Sulla morte , Perdita

“Quando mai nacque sulla terra qualcuno così tenero; dove si è mai visto qualcosa di più amabile che non fosse il mio unico amabile Amato [Gesù] per il quale e nel quale io possedevo assolutamente tutto ciò che questo mondo potrebbe date?”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Sul mondo

“Quando poi verrà davvero l'ora, e non potrai più farlo bene, allora niente hai più da considerare sulla terra se non la mia morte e la mia misericordia insondabile, perché tu non abbia a perdere la speranza.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Sulla morte , Sulla speranza

“Un'ora nel Purgatorio è lunga cento anni.”

Enrico Suso

Libretto dell'eterna sapienza

Enrico Suso: Frasi in inglese

“No one can explain this to another just”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
Contesto: No one can explain this to another just In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits with words. No one can explain this to another just with words. One knows it by experiencing it One knows it by experiencing it.

“Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness.”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
Contesto: In the darkness beyond distinct manner of existing, all multiplicity disappears and the spirit loses what is its own. It disappears with regard to its own activity. This is the highest goal and the 'where' beyond boundaries. In this the spirituality of all spirits ends. Here to lose oneself forever is eternal happiness. To lose oneself forever is eternal happiness

“In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits.”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

“One knows it by experiencing it.”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
Contesto: No one can explain this to another just In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits with words. No one can explain this to another just with words. One knows it by experiencing it One knows it by experiencing it.

“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'. Indeed a person taken within today would not have been there for a shorter period from the point of view of eternity than someone who had been taken”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth
Contesto: 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'. Indeed a person taken within today would not have been there for a shorter period from the point of view of eternity than someone who had been taken Whoever is taken into the Eternal Nothing possesses all in all and has no 'before or after' within a thousand years ago.

“Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars.”

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Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars
The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

“In a detached person nothing merely temporal is born in possessiveness. His eyes are opened. He becomes fully aware and, receiving his blessed existence and life, is one with Him; for all things are here one in the He becomes fully aware and, receiving his blessed existence and life, is one with Him; for all things are here one in the One One.”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

“Disciple: Lord, what is true detachment?
Truth: Take note with careful discrimination of these two words: oneself and leave. If you know how to weigh these two words properly, testing their meaning thoroughly to their core and viewing them with true discernment, then you can quickly grasp the truth.
Take, first of all, the first word -- oneself or myself -- and see what it is. It is important to realize that everyone has five kinds of self. The first self we have in common with a stone, and this is being. The second we share with plants, and this is growing. The third self we share with animals, and this is sensation. The fourth we share with all other human beings: we possess a common human nature in which all are one. The fifth - which belongs to a person exclusively as his or her own - is one's individual human self…
Now what is it that leads people astray and robs them of happiness? It is exclusively this last self. Because of it a person turns outward, away from God and toward this self, when he or she should be returning inward. Thus they fashion their own selves according to what is accidental. In their blindness they appropriate to themselves what is God's. This is the direction they take, and they eventually sink into sinfulness.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“It is hidden for everything that is not God, except for those with whom he wants to share Himself.”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.”

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Quoted in Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 152

“Question: Paul says that no law is made for the just.
Answer: Just persons, by becoming so, conduct themselves more submissively than other people because they understand from within, in the source, what is proper outwardly for everyone, and they view all things accordingly. The reason that they are unfettered is that they do (freely) out of an attitude of detachment what ordinary people do under compulsion.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“Question: Does a detached person remain unoccupied all the time, or what does he or she do?
Answer: The activity of really detached people lies in their becoming detached, and their achievement is to remain unoccupied because they remain calm in action and unconcerned about their achievements.
Question: What is their conduct toward their fellow human beings?
Answer: They enjoy the companionship of people, but without being compromised by them. They love them without attachment, and they show them sympathy without anxious concern - all in true freedom.
Question: Is such a person required to go to confession?
Answer: The confession that is motivated by love is nobler than one motivated by necessity.
Question: What is such people’s prayer like? Are they supposed to pray, too?
Answer: Their prayer is effective because they forestall the influence of the senses. God is spirit and knows whether this person has put an obstacle in the way or whether he or she has acted from selfish impulses. And then a light is enkindled in their highest power, which makes clear that God is the being, life and activity within them and that they are merely instruments.
Question: What are such a person's eating, drinking and sleeping like?
Answer: Externally, and in keeping with their sensuous nature, the outward person eats. Internally, however, they are as if not eating; otherwise, One does not arrive at the goal by asking questions. It is rather through detachment that one comes to this hidden truth they would be enjoying food and rest like an animal. This is also the case in other things pertaining to human existence.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“Now these people who are taken within, These people who are taken within, because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing because of their boundless immanent oneness with God, see themselves as always and eternally existing”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“Be steadfast and never rest content until you have obtained the now of eternity as your present possession in this life, so far as this is possible to human infirmity.”

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Quoted in Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity (1945). London: Fontana Books, 1956, p. 25

“After this the disciple turned again in all seriousness to eternal Truth and asked for the power to discern by outward appearance a person who was truly detached. He asked thus. Eternal Truth, how do such people act in relation to various things?
Answer: They withdraw from themselves, and all things withdraw along with this.
Question: How do they conduct themselves with respect to time?
Answer: They exist in an ever-present now, They exist in an ever-present now, free of selfish intentions free of selfish intentions, and they seek to act perfectly in the smallest thing as in the greatest.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“Question: Is not the person who has been transported to interior detachment freed from external exercises?
Answer: One sees few people reach the condition you describe without their strength being wasted. The efforts of those who really achieve it affect them to the marrow. And so, when they realise what is to be done and left undone, they continue to practise the usual exercises, performing them more or less frequently as their strength and the occasion permit.
Question: Where do the pangs of conscience and other anxieties of seemingly good people come from, as well as the unrestrained latitude (of conscience) in other people?
Answer: Both types are focusing their attention on their own image but in different ways; the one group spiritually, the other bodily.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“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 all human comprehension. You must give up human understanding if you want to reach the goal, because the truth is known by not knowing You must give up human understanding if you want to reach the goal, because the truth is known by not knowing”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.”

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Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften, Stuttgart 1907, p. 199

“Question: What is their external behaviour like?
Answer: They have few mannerisms, and they do not talk a lot; their words are simple and direct. They live modestly so that things pass through them without their involvement. They are composed in their use of the senses.
Question: Are all detached people like this?
Answer: More so or less so, depending on accidental circumstances. Essentially, however, they are the same.
Question: Do such people come to a full knowledge of the truth, or do they remain in the realm of opinion and imagining?
Answer: Since they remain basically human, they continue to have opinions and imaginings. But because they have withdrawn from themselves into that which is, they have a knowledge of all truth; for this is truth itself and they ignore themselves. But let this be enough for you. It is important to realize that everyone has five kinds of self One does not arrive at the goal by asking questions. It is rather through detachment that one comes to this hidden truth. Amen”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

“One thing you must know: Just as there is no comparison between actually hearing the sound of harp-strings sweetly plucked and listening to someone talking about it, so too there is no comparison between words which are received in pure grace, issuing from a living heart, spoken by living lips, and those self-same words committed to dry parchment — especially words in German. For these somehow grow chill, losing their vitality like roses cut. For the enchanting melody which, more than anything else, moves human hearts, then fades away, so that the words are received now into the dryness of dry hearts. No harp-strings were ever so sweet but, when stretched across dry timber, they fall silent. An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian. Therefore, an eager enquirer should hasten to the out-flowing streams of these sweet teachings so that she may see and observe them at their source in all its living and wondrous beauty – that is, the in-flowing of present grace which is able to restore dead hearts to life.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

“In order to attain perfect union, we must divest ourselves of God…The common belief about God, that He is a great Taskmaster, whose function is to reward or punish, is cast out by perfect love; and in this sense the spiritual man does divest himself of God as conceived of by most people.”

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The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

“Disciple: The truth be praised! Dear Lord, tell me, does anything (of this self) still remain in the happy, detached person?
Truth: Without a doubt it happens that, when the good and loyal servant is led into the joy of his Lord, he becomes drunk from the limitless overabundance of God's house. What happens to a drunken man happens to him, though it cannot really be described, that he so forgets his self that he is not at all his self and consequently has got rid of his self completely and lost himself entirely in God, becoming one spirit in all ways with him, just as a small drop of water does which has been dropped into a large amount of wine. Just as the drop of water loses itself, drawing the taste and colour of the wine to and into itself, so it happens that those who are in full possession of blessedness lose all human desires in an inexpressible manner, and they ebb away from themselves and are immersed completely in the divine will. Otherwise, if something of the individual were to remain of which he or she were not completely emptied, scripture could not be true in stating that God shall When the good and loyal servant is led into the joy of his Lord, he becomes drunk from the limitless overabundance of God's house. What happens to a drunken man happens to him, though it cannot really be described, that he so forgets his self that he is not at all his self become all things in all things. Certainly one's being remains, but in a different form, in a different resplendence, and in a different power. This is all the result of total detachment from self.”

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The Exemplar, The Little Book of Truth

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