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Let us say with Saint Augustine: "O my God, I went searching for you outside of myself, but I had you in myself, within myself." Yes, plunged into the immense sea of his love, deeply recollected with great faith and reverence, speak to your God in spirit about the subject you had chosen for your meditation...if during this time you feel your heart filled with peace, compassion, or other sentiments, according as God wills, pause there, all recollected in God, like a bee upon a flower, and suck the honey of holy love in devout silence. If afterward you feel drawn to continue making more loving acts in the form of a colloquy, do so, but pray in peace. ~Paul of the Cross to Marchioness Donna Marianna Della Scala Del Pozzo - 10th letter on January 3, 1729 in Vol. 1 on Page 62 for Paul's Letter 39)

One speaks badly of the intimate depths of the spirit if one does not do so with a deeply recollected soul. ~John of the Cross "The Living Flame of Love" (Prologue)

Paul and John on...