Ipse mihi meditatio,
Ipse mihi delectatio,
Ipsum propter ipsum super me quaero,
Ipso ad ipso inter me pasco,
Ipse mihi ager in quo laboro,
Ipse mihi fructus pro quo laboro,
Ipse mihi causa,
Ipse mihi effectus,
Ipse mihi principium
Ipse mihi fines sine fine,
Ipse mihi in aeternum.
He is my meditation;
He is my delight;
Him for His own sake I seek above all things;
from Himself I feed within me;
He is the field in which I labor;
He is the fruit for which I labor;
He is my cause;
He is my effect;
He is my beginning;
He is my end without end;
He is my eternity
- Isaac of Stella (circa 1100-1169), Cistercian Monk and Abbot of Stella from The Way of Simplicity: The Cistercian Tradition by Esther De Waal
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