Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.

Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

Teach by works more than words.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.