Contemplatives in the market place

...Divine Spouse embraces you only in the sacred interior desert...Remain in your true nothingness and allow this nothing to disappear in the Infinite All that is God. My sister in Christ, I beg you to be faithful in remaining solitary in the inner temple of your soul. There you will have time to medicate your wounds with the precious balm of the Blood coming from the Divine Wounds of the Immaculate Lamb of God. ~Paul of the Cross to Lucy Burlini (Burlini's 6th letter on August, 1772 in Vol. 3 on Page 114 for Paul's Letter 1959)