“If you go to thinlcing,224 take your heart with you. If you go to love, talce your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love. The serpent lurks behind the pure principle. Therefore I lost courage, until I found the serpent that at once led me across to the other principle. In climbing down I become smaller.
Great is he who is in love, since love is the present act of the great creator, the present moment ofthe becoming and lapsing of the world. Mighty is he who loves. But whoever distances himself from love, feels himself powerful.
In your forethinlcing you recognize the nullity ofyour current being as a smalle'st point between the infinity of what has passed and of what is to come. The thinlcer is small, he feels great if he distances himself from thinking. But if we speak about appear- ances, it is the other way around. To whoever is in love, form is a trifling. But his field of vision ends with the form given to him. Towhoeverisinthinking,formisunsurpassableandtheheight of Heaven. But at night he sees the diversity of the innumer- able worlds and their never-ending cycles. Whoever is in love is
a full and overflowing vessel, and.awaits the giving.”