This short treatise is attributed to the 13th-century German Dominican friar St. Albert the Great. Cleaving to God is a mystical and contemplative work, explaining how God’s love will help one stay united with Him.

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Excerpts From Cleaving to God

“He who clings to God is indeed translated into the light, while he who clings to the world is in the dark. So the supreme perfection of man in this life is to be so united to God that all his soul with all its faculties and powers are so gathered into the Lord God that he becomes one spirit with him, and remembers nothing except God, is aware of and recognizes nothing but God, but with all his desires unified by the joy of love, he rests contentedly in the enjoyment of his Maker alone.”

“So simplify your heart with all care, diligence, and effort so that still and at peace from the products of the imagination you can turn round and always remain in the Lord within yourself, as if your mind were already in the now of eternity, that is of the godhead.”