Paul of the Cross' Spirituality

"...Jesus wants from you a very high detachment from all created things, a true mystical death to all that is not of God, a great nakedness and poverty of spirit so that you may be entirely clothed in purest faith and holy love of Jesus Christ...Be alone in the depth of your spirit, in the most intimate closet within. Live by faith and holy love. Stay entirely immersed in the love of God in your deepest interior. When our good God wishes you to speak...do this, however, with your interior tongue in a pure spirit of love. But when your soul wishes to remain all alone with your Sovereign Good, adoring him in spirit and in truth, in a profound silence of faith and holy love, stay that way...and feed yourself in a holy interior silence with that sweetest food of holy love... go in spirit to fish in that holy sea of the pains of Jesus Christ and the sorrows of Mary Most Holy. In this great sea you will fish for the jewels of the holy virtues of the gentle Jesus... this divine fishing in the sea of divine love, from which issues the sea of the holy sufferings of Jesus Christ — these two seas are one — is done in the interior kingdom of your spirit in purest faith and burning love...if you will come to know with the grace of Jesus Christ how to humble yourself much, be hidden from all creatures in your own nothingness, to be in the midst of people as though dead, without eyes, ears, tongue, etc., you will learn the great science of the saints..."

Paul's Spirituality