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Paul of the Cross on All Alone...

"...in your nothingness ... all alone ... sacred silence..."

... I will tell you. First, all humbled and concentrated in your nothingness, in your being able to do nothing, having nothing, knowing nothing, but with a high confidence in the Lord, you must lose yourself entirely in the abyss of the infinite love of God, which is entirely a flame of love. “Our God is a consuming fire.” ... in that immense fire let your imperfect self be consumed entirely to be reborn to a new godlike life, a life entirely of love, a life entirely holy. This Divine Birth takes place in the Divine Word, Christ Our Lord... in the most intimate part of your spirit, in the deepest room ... dead mystically to all that is not God ... enter all alone into that sacred interior solitude of the sacred desert ...with faith and holy love ... standing in sacred silence of faith and love, the soul is reborn every moment to a new life of love in the Divine Word... ~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)

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