Free Essays - Nuts That Aren't Nuts in a Book of Expositions I thought it might be useful to attach it all on the cover page for reading at your leisure if you wish. Below is the text from the Norton Anthology of English Literature (p. 295), along with the assumptions I make while reading the text. The first is taken directly from the book, and since everything is on one page, I will refrain from noting this page each time I refer to the text. If you want examples, it's all below and will be treated as my point of reference in all situations. These are important so that I don't have to address them in the body of the essay, since they are usually logical assumptions gleaned from reading and I don't have the space to spend time explaining . However, we can refer to it as proof. And in this he showed a small thing, the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as I think, and it was round like a ball. I looked at it with the eye of my understanding and thought: What could this be? And we generally responded like this: That's all that's done. I wondered how it could last, because I thought that suddenly it could have come to naught because of my smallness. And they answered me in my understanding: It lasts and will last forever, because God loves it; and so it is all through the love of God. In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God created it, the second that God loves it, the third that God keeps it. But what did I see in there? Truly, the creator, the guardian, the lover. For until I am substantially united with him, I can never have complete rest, nor even true happiness; that is to say that I am so attached to him that there is nothing just that happens between my God and me. This little thing that is done, I thought it could have come to naught through pettiness. We must know that we love nothing of all that is made, in order to love and have God who is not made. For this is the reason why we are not all in a state of heart and soul, because we seek rest here in this thing which is so little, where there is no rest, and we do not know not our God, who is all-powerful, all-wise. and everything is fine, because he is very rested.

Essay / Free Essays - Nuts That Aren't Nuts in a Book of Expositions I thought it might be useful to attach it all on the cover page for reading at your leisure if you wish. Below is the text from the Norton Anthology of English Literature (p. 295), along with the assumptions I make while reading the text. The first is taken directly from the book, and since everything is on one page, I will refrain from noting this page each time I refer to the text. If you want examples, it's all below and will be treated as my point of reference in all situations. These are important so that I don't have to address them in the body of the essay, since they are usually logical assumptions gleaned from reading and I don't have the space to spend time explaining . However, we can refer to it as proof. And in this he showed a small thing, the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as I think, and it was round like a ball. I looked at it with the eye of my understanding and thought: What could this be? And we generally responded like this: That's all that's done. I wondered how it could last, because I thought that suddenly it could have come to naught because of my smallness. And they answered me in my understanding: It lasts and will last forever, because God loves it; and so it is all through the love of God. In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God created it, the second that God loves it, the third that God keeps it. But what did I see in there? Truly, the creator, the guardian, the lover. For until I am substantially united with him, I can never have complete rest, nor even true happiness; that is to say that I am so attached to him that there is nothing just that happens between my God and me. This little thing that is done, I thought it could have come to naught through pettiness. We must know that we love nothing of all that is made, in order to love and have God who is not made. For this is the reason why we are not all in a state of heart and soul, because we seek rest here in this thing which is so little, where there is no rest, and we do not know not our God, who is all-powerful, all-wise. and everything is fine, because he is very rested.

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