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Many of these beginners want God to desire what they want, and they become sad if they have to desire God's will. They frequently believe that what is not their will, or that which brings them no satisfaction, is not God's will, and on the other hand, that if they are satisfied, God is too.

More courage I will need for sure,
But any pain will I endure,
Because it makes me like to you
And leads unto your kingdom too.

Who are you, sweet Light, who inundate
me and enlighten the night of my heart?
You guide me just like a mother's hand;
but if you leave me
I cannot advance a single step.
You are space
that surrounds my being
and in which it is concealed.
If you abandon me I fall into the abyss
of nothingness, from where
you called me into being.
You are nearer to me than myself
more intimate than my inmost being.
And yet no one touches you
or understands you
and you break the bonds of every name:
Holy Spirit - Eternal Love!

The mirror in which we ought to look at ourselves that we may reach divine union is Jesus Christ, because no one can attain it except by means of and through the merits of Jesus Crucified.

My life is but an instant, an hour that passes by; a single day that slips my grasp and quickly slides away. O well you know, my dearest God, to love you I only have today.

That is what life in Carmel means: to live in God, contemplating His goodness and beauty, and dedicated entirely to the fulfillment of His blessed Will. Then every immolation, every sacrifice becomes divine; through everything the soul sees Him whom she loves and everything leads her to Him... it is a continual communion. All day long she surrenders herself to Love, by doing the will of God, under His gaze, with Him, in Him, for Him alone.

Thus you must undertake all things, agreeable or disagreeable, for the sole purpose of pleasing God through them.

Let us make prayer precede our every action. Who is so wise as to be able to decide without counsel? And what counsel is more perfect than that of the Holy Spirit Who communicates Himself to us when we pray?

If the Lord put up with someone as miserable as myself for so long a time...who, no matter how bad they may be, has reason to fear? For no matter how bad they may be, they will not be bad for as many years as I was after having received so many favors from the Lord. Who can lose confidence?

Rather than continually dwelling on her misery and worthlessness, she merely let all thought of self fall away before the infinite majesty of God; and truly the most profitable and genuine way of despising self is to forget oneself altogether.

from God is Love

A science of the cross can be gained only when one comes to feel the cross radically.

The soul ought to consider aridity and darkness as fortunate omens; as signs that God is beside it, freeing it from itself, taking the initiative out of its hand.