No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.

...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

God is at home. We are in the far country.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.