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God’s speech is the effect He produces in the soul. … it wounds the soul with the tenderness of God’s life, and it wounds and stirs it so deeply as to make it dissolve in love… … “As soon as He spoke my soul melted”. … The divine substance absorbs the soul in itself.   … Continue reading

This imperfect state of incompleteness, isolation and separation from the goal is the basic source of our existential anguish – anguish that arises not because of our existence but because of our separated existence. Hence the anguish running through the writings of the mystics and reflected in the cry of St. John of the Cross: … Continue reading existential contingency

In the inner wine cellar I drank of my Beloved, and when I went abroad Through all this valley I no longer knew anything, And lost the herd which I was following.                          That elevation and immersion of the mind in God, in which … Continue reading no longer knew anything

Hurry and come down, for I must stay in your house today. The master unceasingly repeats this call to our soul which He once addressed to Zacchaeus. Hurry and come down. But what is this descent that He demands of us except an entering more deeply into our interior abyss? Father, I want those you have … Continue reading live where He lives