To come to be what you are not
you must go by a way in which you are not.
– St John of the Cross
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In Practice
It should be known that if a person is seeking God, her beloved is seeking her much more. The soul, then, should advert that God is the principal agent in this matter, and that He acts as the blind man’s guide who must lead it by the hand to the place beyond the reach of … Continue reading In Practice
The vast emptiness
O lamps of fire bright-burningwith splendid brilliance, turningdeep caverns of my soul to pools of light!Once shadowed, dim, unknowing,now with their strange new-found glowinggives warmth and radiance for my Love’s delight. These caverns are the soul’s faculties: memory, intellect, and will. They are as deep as are the boundless goods of which they are capable, … Continue reading The vast emptiness
Killing, you give me life
Ah, gentle hand whose touch is a caress,foretaste of heaven conveyingand every debt repaying:killing, you give me life for death’s distress. For death is nothing other than the privation of life, because when life comes no vestige of death remains. Let it be known that what the soul calls death is all that goes to … Continue reading Killing, you give me life
Wound of delight
Burn that is for my healing!Wound of delight past feeling! You detach and withdraw the soul from all the other touches of created things by the might of Your delicacy, and reserve it for and unite it to Yourself alone, so mild an effect do You leave in the soul that every other touch of … Continue reading Wound of delight
