For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

...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.