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EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion With Her Savior, 1.1.7
NickAdamsinUSA: This trio is destroying America.
momlovedquotes: Death cannot kill what never dies.
Thomas Traherne
ericmparker: "And first O Lord I prais and Magnify thy Name
For the Most Holy Virgin-Mother of GOD, who is the Highest of thy Saints.
The Most Glorious of all thy Creatures.
The most Perfect of all thy Works.
The Nearest unto Thee, in the Throne of God."
-Thomas Traherne
ericmparker: "The Cross of Christ is the Jacob's ladder by which we Ascend into the Highest Heavens...That Cross is a Tree set on fire with invisible flame, that Illuminateth all the World. The Flame is Love. The Love is His bosom who died on it."
-Thomas Traherne
BobSand30908846: “As nothing is more easy than to think, says Thomas Traherne, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
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ClassicalFaith: Souls are God's jewels, every one of which is worth many worlds.
—Thomas Traherne
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion with her Savior. 1.1.6
MrTruth_199: Why doesn't the media talk about Ashley Biden's Diary ? Instead they try to get Trump for Jay Walking
ericmparker: "God's Eternity is a Bottle like the Heavens wherein the Tears of Penitents Glitter like the Stars."
-Thomas Traherne
GBClarkson: To walk abroad is, not with eyes,
But thoughts, the fields to see and prize;
Else may the silent feet,
Like logs of wood,
Move up and down, and see no good
Nor joy nor glory meet.
--Thomas Traherne, Walking
LeyfMax: “Do you not feel yourself drawn by the expectation and desire of some Great Thing?”
—Thomas Traherne, “Centuries of Meditation” 1.2
BehizyTweets: Christian artist Natasha Owens released a song titled, "Trump Won." It already has 1 million views
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion With Her Savior 1.1.6
GeraldMbise615: Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.,Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations,purpose-of-life,
_Michael_Hansen: “We can never too violently either love or desire, our supreme happiness. Our hope can never exceed its greatness. We can never too much rejoice in the fruition of it, nor can we exceed in anger or hatred against those things that would bereave us of it.” - Thomas Traherne
jordanbpeterson: Thoughts from a well-informed-on-economic-matters friend of mine re $SIVB
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion With Her Savior, 1.1.5
rgtrendsetter: To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
-Thomas Traherne
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4ralphgailonly: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
-Thomas Traherne
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isidro_li: Possession doth not cloy,
Nor sense of want destroy;
Both always are together;
No force can either from the other sever.
Yet there 's a space between
That 's endless.
— Thomas Traherne
Katriorgi2558: You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.,Thomas Traherne,Stars, Sea, World ,
Encyclonomicon: "The Powers of the Soul are far more Glorious than those of the Body, for in these as in a Mirror the Face of GOD is seen. In these His Image is seated. In these all the Seeds of our Happiness are contained, and by these is it Enjoyed."
—Thomas Traherne (1674)
Encyclonomicon: "You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world"
—Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation (1665)
ericmparker: "Saul, Saul, Why Persecut'st thou me?
A Christian is not only his but He!"
-Thomas Traherne
cyberalgo: “To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.”
—Thomas Traherne
GodBrahman: Thomas Traherne
CROWNED WITH THE STARS
"You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flows in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world(cont'd)
andyluff8: Thomas Traherne stained glass window. Hereford Cathedral.
nicomuhly: The poet I set most often for sacred music is Thomas Traherne, whose poems are often 97.5% perfect, and you’re going through and it’s all good... and then you get to “a line which will never fly because the choristers will giggle uproariously” — two such examples below. 
tacobender29: How like an angel came I down!
Thomas Traherne
ReformedIrenics: “The Salutation” by Thomas Traherne
pastorpriestley: --Thomas Traherne, Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings
"We can't--or I can't--hear the song of a bird simply as a sound. Its meaning or message ("That's a bird") comes with it inevitably--just as one can't see a familiar word in print as a merely visual pattern. 5/9
AdFontesJournal: "Taking the moments we have with one another to pause, breathe, and give thanks for one another and for the God that brought us all here–that’s all we have, really"
PiperMarxBot: Thomas Traherne, Centuries, Poems, and the bourgeois have the advantage, the propertyless must submit to the bad conditions laid down by the bourgeois.
albernaj: Thomas Traherne says the world is the “porch of eternity”
ericmparker: Thomas Traherne on the Sabbath principle and what some call the normative principle of worship:
"[God] hath appointed one Day of necessity in the Week: he hath not forbidden more."
(Church's Year-Book, p. 235)
daipike: Early 14th century glass in St. Mary's, Credenhill, Herefordshire. Thomas Traherne, mystic and poet, was the rector here in the mid 17th century.
ReformedIrenics: “Innocence” by Thomas Traherne
AdFontesJournal: "A joyful sense and purity
Is all I can remember;
The very night to me was bright,
’Twas summer in December."
RedemTheTimes: Thomas Traherne would have voted for Nixon.
FintryTrust: 'The very Day my Spirit did inspire,
The world’s fair beauty set my soul on fire.'
Join us on 4 March for an online study-day on the poetry of Thomas Traherne, led by Richard Willmott, Chairman of the Traherne Association
KirkdaleBooks: babies is one thing. Ok, Thomas Traherne
AdFontesJournal: "Despite the man-centredness of modernity, the fact is we live in a misanthropic time"
ericmparker: A new editorial team is preparing a 10 volume series of the complete works of Thomas Traherne, including all of the unpublished manuscripts.
Ramtam: 'You are as prone to Love as the sun is to shine'
(Centuries I1, 65). Thomas Traherne. Wise words.
jvfesko: "The Cross is the abyss of wonders, the center of desires, the school of virtues, the house of wisdom, the throne of love, the theater of joys, and the place of sorrows; it is the root of happiness and the gate of Heaven" (Thomas Traherne).
AdFontesJournal: "Perusing the papers of the bookbarrow at Farringdon Road in London, Brooke came across some manuscripts which, if not purchased, were shortly to be destroyed"
ReformedIrenics: Thomas Traherne: An Introduction
AdFontesJournal: "I knew not that there was a serpent’s sting"
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion with her Savior, Book 1.1.4
captainblondy: Every western convert to Theravada Buddhism should read Thomas Traherne's "Centuries of Meditations".
Josiah_Reformer: Eternity wanted like a God. He wanted the communication of His divine essence, and persons to enjoy it. He wanted Worlds, He wanted Spectators, He wanted Joys, He wanted Treasures. He wanted, yet He wanted not, for He had them.”
- Thomas Traherne (Centuries of Meditations 1.41)
Josiah_Reformer: nor manifested His wisdom, nor exercised His power, nor beautified Eternity, nor prepared the Joys of Heaven. But, He wanted Angels and Men, Images and Companions: And these He had from all Eternity”
- Thomas Traherne (Centuries of Meditations 1.42)
FintryTrust: The Fintry Trust newsletter for February is out today, with details on upcoming events online and in person, including sessions on ‘Apollo: The Light of Consciousness’, St Teresa of Avila, and the poetry of Thomas Traherne
ernser80jozs: Greening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature’s Role in the Ecological Formation of Children (Princeton Theologica WDSVJRX
wikishoutouts: Shout out to all Trahernes worldwide: Cennydd Traherne Welsh landowner, and Thomas Trahern English officer-of-arms Somerset Herald.
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion with her Savior, Book 1.1.3
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion With Her Savior.1
Edie1958: Transcendental poet renown Thomas Traherne religious prose akin to Solomon Ibn Gabriol Centuries of meditation
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion with her Savior Book 1.1.2
andyluff8: " The Idler ". Thomas Traherne stained glass window Hereford Cathedral.
andyluff8: Thomas Traherne stained glass window. Hereford Cathedral.
dallasjloewen: till you are familiar with the way of God in all ages as with your walk and table. . . till you delight in God for being good to all: you never enjoy the world."
-Thomas Traherne
captainblondy: "Be present with your want of a Deity, and you shall be present with the Deity"- Thomas Traherne
EdwardCWilde: Thomas Traherne, The Soul’s Communion with her Savior Book 1.1.1
captainblondy: "To have blessings and to prize them is to be in Heaven; to have them and not to prize them is to be in hell"-Thomas Traherne
CritReadings: CR Episode 158: Introduction to Thomas Traherne
d_n_keane: At last —
d_n_keane: “Shadows In The Water” by Thomas Traherne, beautifully read by Sir Cedric Hardwicke
ericmparker: "O Sun of Justice, who settest the Mountains on fire with thy Lightening, and Blindest our Eys with thy excellent Brightness, let mine Eys be Blind to the Vanities of the World, that they may be Illuminated by Thee."
-Thomas Traherne (Church's Yearbook)
HerzensZunge: This book unto the friend of my best friend
As of the wisest Love a mark I send,
That she may write my Maker's prais therin
And make her self therby a Cherubin.
Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations
liliane7hdps: The Works of Thomas Traherne VII: Christian Ethicks and Roman Forgeries AFKVSLH
BGuillermo48: Greening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature’s Role in the Ecological Formation of Children (Princeton Theologica 9X5BRN2
pacocha86kco: Greening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature’s Role in the Ecological Formation of Children (Princeton Theologica OIQRO3P
KatyCycles: And Thomas Traherne is also missing!!! Argh. Book searches coming up…
RedemTheTimes: That's literal translation (original translations of many latin texts; like our Vermigli library), other times it is updating of older texts (we modernize Richard Hooker, & soon Thomas Traherne), & sometimes it is popular works making old ideas intelligible to modern people.
YundtKristin: The Works of Thomas Traherne VII: Christian Ethicks and Roman Forgeries 6XS6QI8
andyluff8: Thomas Traherne stained glass window. Hereford Cathedral.
MonPropreEsprit: 07:26 a.m.
December 10, 2022
"These rosy cheeks wherewith my life begins" (Thomas,Traherne)
GiovaniAbernat2: Greening the Children of God: Thomas Traherne and Nature’s Role in the Ecological Formation of Children (Princeton Theologica 5Q9EJFS
lmost_everybody: ...perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world...
- Thomas Traherne
_stevenfoster: The contemplation of eternity makes the soul immortal.
-Thomas Traherne
What Traherne was getting at is more than a bold statement on the soul because his contemplations were led by written words.
jonathanrbailey: Since Love is the end for which Heaven and Earth was made, enable me to see and discern the sweetness of so great a treasure. -Thomas Traherne
FintryTrust: Join us this Tuesday for an online talk on Peter Sterry, 'the most musical of the 17th-century Cambridge Platonists and a writer who deserves to be placed side by side with his contemporary Thomas Traherne.'
gmshaw: "Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven; see yourself in your Father's Palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as Celestial Joys: having such a reverend esteem of all as if you were among the Angels." Thomas Traherne
nowhere_runner: "The noble inclination whereby man thirsteth after riches and dominion, is his highest virtue, when rightly guided; and carries him as in a triumphant chariot, to his sovereign happiness." —Thomas Traherne
deangelo73zen: The Works of Thomas Traherne VII: Christian Ethicks and Roman Forgeries VNVW1K3
YngHereticsShow: This book will completely change the way you look at everything in life.
_DavidCSmith: I've been trying to find who, if anyone is doing work on Thomas Traherne. I found a few:
_DavidCSmith: Traherne's works are being published in one set for a lot of money here:
_stevenfoster: So that an evil habit and custom have made it difficult to think well, not Nature. For by nature nothing is so difficult as to think amiss.
-Thomas Traherne, Meditation 8, Centuries
YngHereticsShow: Check out the book featured on the latest episode of Young Heretics, "Centuries" by Thomas Traherne. ⤵️
YngHereticsShow: Unlock a totally different way of looking at life with the 17th-century mystic, Thomas Traherne.
johnfbrowning37: Today's poem is a favorite by Thomas Traherne, Metaphysical Poet
(giving my stuff a rest for a day). This one is quite ponderable.
YngHereticsShow: ✅ This book is certified, Klavan-approved:
cyberalgo: “Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.”
—Thomas Traherne
PiperMarxBot: Thomas Traherne, Centuries, Poems, however the proletariat.
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