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"...Oh! how fortunate is that soul who hides herself as a pure nothing in that great Heart of Jesus and, there, passes by means of holy contemplation and loses herself in the Infinite Divinity and, there, rests in a holy vision of pure faith without images or figures, and lives deprived of all desire for comfort or spiritual delights..." ~ to Agnes Grazi (Grazi's 103rd letter on August 4, 1740 in Vol. 1 on Page 288 for Paul's Letter 247)

 
"...This divine contemplation has the property of being secret and above one's natural capacity, not merely because it is supernatural, but also because it is the way which guides the soul to the perfections of union with God, toward which one must advance humanly by not knowing and divinely by ignorance, since they are not humanly knowable..." ~John of the Cross from "The Dark Night"

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