Quote by Marguerite Porete: “Truly, the Soul cannot be at peace, unless it leaves reason behind.”

Porete argues that true inner tranquility and spiritual peace require moving beyond purely rational thought. She suggests that intellect can be a barrier to deeper spiritual understanding and that a surrender to something beyond logic is necessary for profound serenity, emphasizing faith over mere intellectualization.

This statement underpinned her mystical theology, which posited a spiritual path that bypassed the scholasticism and rationalism prevalent in medieval theology, a path many found heretical and dangerous to established order.

Medieval French mystic and author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, written in the late 13th century. She taught that the soul must annihilate itself in union with divine love, a doctrine the Church found heretical. She was burned at the stake in Paris in 1310 rather than recant her writings.