You are the mountain and the valley.

What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.