If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. (Johannes Tauler)

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Johannes Tauler

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