Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas Quotes

“In other words, even if all that can be known were known to you, you still wouldn't know anything because none of this has an effect on what you are. But the moment you know Yourself, in the non-knowing of what you are or what you are not, you know All! This is the paradox of Knowledge: you know yourself in the Absolute not-knowing because you are That what is unknowable, you are the ungraspable, the incomprehensible, without a second. And any idea or possibility of knowing creates duality.”
― Karl Renz, Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas

“Nobody can bear this lightness. "The unbearable lightness of Being". It depresses you because you are in the void, this void which will teach you and empty you so that you become the void of the void. Because only the void of the void doesn't know the void. The Buddhists, who are very concerned by Emptiness, say that Emptiness is the only teacher. Then you become accustomed to the void, which will erase you at the end. What is in the void cannot remain. At the beginning you do everything to avoid it until you cannot do it anymore. Then it devours you. And when you are no more there, the void is no more.”
― Karl Renz, Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas

“Hope dies last! The idea of "me" comes from the hope to know oneself and when this hope disappears the "me" vanishes. Without hope, no "me". Jesus calls this "the dark night of the soul", when all hope disappears, all meaning, all purpose, when you become aware that the world cannot make you happy. Then a holocaust, which is the awareness of this, eradicates this idea of separation. And only this awareness is the Grace, which cannot be reached by anyone.”
― Karl Renz, Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas

“Grace tears you away in spite of yourself. You cannot do anything for or against it. It doesn't know you. It is absolutely merciless, ready to devour. The infinite is always present but only when this armour, this idea of separation, weakens, does Grace seize you. Most people experience the dark night of the soul as a deep depression, a total void of all sense, all ideas. In this emptiness of meaning and purpose the person is eradicated. This is Grace.”
― Karl Renz, Commentaries On The Gospel Of Thomas