John Tauler · 108 of 121

The third way of a poor, perfect life, when you contemplate God internally, is, that a man do not fly from what may kill him in spiritual things. · 95.

Thus this man is passive or suffering in this birth, and God worketh all in him. For this reason Jesus also said, “None is good, save God alone.” No man’s work is good, save that from God and by God. It is also the best thing that a man be free from all work, and let God alone work and suffer it If God is the working and man the passive being, then all is placed at rest in him. God’s working in the soul is essential; it springeth out of the divine essence, and is fulfilled in the essence of the soul. By the divine work all evil that was ever exercised is rooted out of the soul. Punishment and guilt are remitted to the man, for when God revealeth Himself to the soul, all besides must give way, and God be alone let reign; and nothing can reign there save God.