"...As for yourself, so that His Divine Majesty may always
work his marvels more in your spirit, keep yourself as much as possible in a
high abstraction from all that is created, in a true nakedness and poverty of
spirit, and in a true internal solitude, letting the sheep of your faculties and
thoughts enter the interior desert, and there be lost in God. Let them be lost,
for they lose themselves easily in their origin. O loss, which is infinitely
rich! O sacred desert, in which the soul learns the science of the saints as
Moses did in the profound solitude of Mount Horeb...."~Paul of the Cross to John Mary Cioni of Saint
Ignatius (10th letter on June 30, 1757 in Vol. 2 on Page 566 for Paul's Letter
1079)