'Yes, my daughter, when the soul feels herself all alone with God with a pure, holy, and sweet attention to God in pure and living faith, reposing on the sweet bosom of the Beloved Good in a sacred silence of love, where the soul speaks to God with this sacred silence more than if she used words, it is necessary in such a case to let it remain so and not bother it with other exercises. For God, at such a time, holds it in his loving arms and brings it into his cellar to drink the sweetest wine.' (St. Paul of the Cross letter 73) |
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