Who teaches the soul if not God?

However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.

The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.