İçsel Sükûnetin Yolu: Sessizlikte İşiten Ruh

This heavenly song begins to make itself heard in the silence and in the interior repose of the Soul; when, being already greatly detached from herself and expanded in God, she enters into passive fidelity and into a more perfect abandonment; letting herself be led by her Bridegroom far more than she moves or leads herself: which, according to the Apostle, is the characteristic of the children of God. We must therefore seek in these bodily figures only what is of the interior; and one must here speak of the body, as if one were outside the body itself. Those who are greatly detached from it know by their experience how the grace of God works it in them. But an entirely divine work must be left for God to do, the soul contributing only a faithful submission to His guidance: For how could the creature do what it cannot even know, and which happens to it without its being able to foresee it? The model for it is in the mind of God, and the execution in the hands of His grace; He asks for a heart that gives itself perfectly to Him, without ever taking itself back, and which lets Him act.