Bohme, Jacob
1575-1624    49 years

aka:  Jakob Bohme, Bohm, Behme, Boehme, etc.  
German pr. is "Ber-meh"
German scholar, writer, philosopher, theologian, etc.

shoemaker by trade

has a "spiritual experience" at 25 years

wrote 29 books on his ideas and philosophies

censured by his town council for "heresy".
Really, when you see that you are not the center, you
also see there is no center in existence, or everywhere is
the center. Either there is no center and existence exists
as a totality, a wholeness without any center as a control
point, or every single atom is a center.

Jacob Bohme has said that the whole world is filled with
centers, every atom is a center, and there is no
circumference – centers everywhere and circumference
nowhere. These two are the possibilities. Both mean the
same; only the wording is different and contradictory. But
first become a center...

                                              --Osho
        My Way, The Way of the White Clouds, ch. 8
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