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"...Oh! what a lover of silence you should be, of being withdrawn, fleeing ease, but working and being silent and staying close to God within, … All the work … happens in the interior solitude, in the temple of the soul, in the kingdom of God, which is the soul itself. More is learned by being silent, in the holy silence of faith than by speaking, etc. In that solitude the new godlike life comes to birth, that is to say, a holy life. The Divine Spouse leads you to fish in the sea of the holy sufferings; so fish, my daughter, and allow yourself to be entirely penetrated with love and with sorrow, and make the pains of Jesus your own..."  ~Paul of the Cross to Lucy Burlini (Burlini's 4th letter on August 17, 1751 in Vol. 2 on Page 273 for Paul's Letter 771)