Blessed is the one who has arrived at infinite ignorance.
Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.
If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.
The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.
Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.